Re: [newbie] Switching Desktops
And would www.civileme.com/mgm.jpg be a picture of you? Ron begin sarcastic remark area gee, if it is, does he have the face for radio or what /end sarcastic remark area just joking, and since I ain't volunteering my picture... we can all just guess that the uglier one is... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Switching Desktops
Hello, There was sa utility called switchdesk before atleast till Mandrake 7.1, now it is no longer available. Why? If I do not boot into grphics mode how can I change the desktop later? btw, I think switchdesk rpm is still available and still works atleast till Mandrake 8.0. Thanks and bye. -Payal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Switching Desktops
I assume you are booting straight into your user or else it would be obvious. To set it up to choose between KDE and Gnome do this :- 1/ Install the KDE RPMS from Software Manager (obviously) 2/ Open Mandrake Control CentreBootBootConfig 3/ Click 'Yes' to Launch X window at start, Click 'No' to autologin 4/ Click OK and reboot When the system reboots you will be presented with either the KDE or Gnome Login Manager. Either of which allows you to choose what kind of session you wish to open. (KDM has a drop down menu, GDM has a 'Session' select button) The same goes for any of the other Window managers. It is worth giving them a try just for fun. HTH derek On Friday 19 April 2002 7:05 am, Charles Muller wrote: When I installed LM 8.2, I selected Gnome as my desktop. I would now like to give KDE a try. Can someone tell me the best way to go about doing this change? Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Switching Desktops
On Friday 19 April 2002 05:28 PM, Derek Jennings wrote: I assume you are booting straight into your user or else it would be obvious. To set it up to choose between KDE and Gnome do this :- Thanks Derek. I have run into one snag. I did change the setting in BootConfig to KDE, but if I boot directly into my user, it still goes into Gnome. I can escape the problem by not directly booting into the DM and choosing manually, but for some reason this setting change is not holding. I suppose I need to open up a config file somewhere and edit something. Any further hints? Thanks, Chuck 1/ Install the KDE RPMS from Software Manager (obviously) 2/ Open Mandrake Control CentreBootBootConfig 3/ Click 'Yes' to Launch X window at start, Click 'No' to autologin 4/ Click OK and reboot When the system reboots you will be presented with either the KDE or Gnome Login Manager. Either of which allows you to choose what kind of session you wish to open. (KDM has a drop down menu, GDM has a 'Session' select button) The same goes for any of the other Window managers. It is worth giving them a try just for fun. HTH Derek On Friday 19 April 2002 7:05 am, Charles Muller wrote: When I installed LM 8.2, I selected Gnome as my desktop. I would now like to give KDE a try. Can someone tell me the best way to go about doing this change? Chuck -- Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Switching Desktops
On Friday 19 April 2002 11:21 am, Charles Muller wrote: On Friday 19 April 2002 05:28 PM, Derek Jennings wrote: I assume you are booting straight into your user or else it would be obvious. To set it up to choose between KDE and Gnome do this :- Thanks Derek. I have run into one snag. I did change the setting in BootConfig to KDE, but if I boot directly into my user, it still goes into Gnome. I can escape the problem by not directly booting into the DM and choosing manually, but for some reason this setting change is not holding. I suppose I need to open up a config file somewhere and edit something. Any further hints? I think thats in .wmrc in your home directory Just put kde in there and I think you'll be OK derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Switching Desktops
When I installed LM 8.2, I selected Gnome as my desktop. I would now like to give KDE a try. Can someone tell me the best way to go about doing this change? Chuck -- Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Switching Desktops..
Hi All, I'm running Mandrake Linux 7.2 and I just can't seem to figure out how to switch desktops. I don't want to use a graphical logon and everytime I use DrakConf it switches X back to 3.3.6... Is there a special command that I can issue from a prompt? Thanks all!
[newbie] switching desktops
Can someone tell me how to switch from KDE to Gnome? switchdesk used to work a while back. Greg -- It said use Windows 98 or better so I installed Linux.
Re: [newbie] switching desktops
On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, you wrote: Can someone tell me how to switch from KDE to Gnome? switchdesk used to work a while back. Greg Hi, just log out and then change desktops at the button that says KDE on the login screen. Click on it and you should see all the available desktops. -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] switching desktops
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, John Knopp wrote: How does one change to a different window manager (i.e., Afterstep)? I have heard rumblings about something called a "desktop switcher" in 6.0 but I can't find any references to this in any manual or program menu and the Afterstep documentation is basically worthless. Run desktopcfg, that should let you choose between KDE, Gnome, Afterstep, and plain X11 as your default desktop. -Tom
Re: [newbie] switching desktops
John Knopp wrote: Hi all, I finally got the guts to install 6.0 and aside from a few petty error messages about missing MIME types on X startup all seems to be well. I still have a question if someone has some spare time: How does one change to a different window manager (i.e., Afterstep)? I have heard rumblings about something called a "desktop switcher" in 6.0 but I can't find any references to this in any manual or program menu and the Afterstep documentation is basically worthless. Thanks! John Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 6.0 Hi John, first of all you should have a choice at login (if you do a graphical login, there is a selection box, giving you the choice between the WM's you installed, default is KDE). Altenatively, if you are already in X-Windows and KDE, run "switchdesk" which will give you another choice. However, you must of course have some other window manager installed... bye, willy
