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gabriel9

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From: Berlin, DE

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 89

KDE, GNOME, or more then one DE, WM on one installation.

First of all this is not topic for war or some other who is better DE.

I use KDE for some time now, but when i start using GNU/Linux i used GNOME. Now i wish to try GNOME but i don't wish to remove KDE.
I install GNOME and i can login with GNOME session. But there is some really bad stuff.
One and far must important is how to separate GNOME and KDE aps in menus.
Next is i can't start wireless in GNOME, maybe i have forgot  how to do it in gnome.
There is some other issues and when i test all i will submit them here.

So if someone tried this, can you give some advice or something like that.

BTW if you have experience with this can you share it.

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karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: KDE, GNOME, or more then one DE, WM on one installation.

There was a talk like this recently, one of the ideas is to use different users for each DE.

shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 458

Re: KDE, GNOME, or more then one DE, WM on one installation.

and you can choose DE at the login screen, after you intalled all af them.

ezik

JokerBoy

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From: România

Registered: 2009-09-24

Posts: 641

Re: KDE, GNOME, or more then one DE, WM on one installation.

this is what the guy wants:

One and far must important is how to separate GNOME and KDE aps in menus.

not how to select the session, etc. personally i don't know how.. but i'll be glad to find out too.

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Tondu

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From: Göttingen

Registered: 2009-08-11

Posts: 22

Re: KDE, GNOME, or more then one DE, WM on one installation.

Here are some infos about this point (I know it is in french but it may help I guess)

http://tuxce.selfip.org/informatique/gn … ions-qtkde
And another link to get the preferred application changed as a function of the desktop (evince in gnome and okular in KDE for instance)
http://tuxce.selfip.org/informatique/ap … ironnement

dodgefan

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From: The 60s's

Registered: 2008-03-08

Posts: 41

Re: KDE, GNOME, or more then one DE, WM on one installation.

in gnome you can right click on the menu and edit the menus. you can uncheck all the items you do not want to see

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superchango

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From: Tenochtitlan

Registered: 2009-01-22

Posts: 133

Re: KDE, GNOME, or more then one DE, WM on one installation.

To edit menu entries:

KDE: Right clic in "K" & Edit Menu; delete all Gnome entries and save the changes.
Gnome: System>Preference>Menu  (or Alt + F2 and type: alacarte ); unmark KDE entries.

One personal tip: To start KDE session i use KDM and to start Gnome session i use GDM. I change /etc/rc.conf for choose one of that and reboot the system. Truely, i don't know if this really has a impact in system performance but i do it xD.

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gabriel9

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From: Berlin, DE

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 89

Re: KDE, GNOME, or more then one DE, WM on one installation.

For now they coexist. And it is nice to change DE. Still it needs some fixing but it is good now.
BTW i think i saw somewhere in KDE option to show only KDE aps, but i am not sure.

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