[techtalk] KDE vs Gnome

[Gail Allinson]

Just This Girl wrote:
> 
> I would like to give Gnome a test spin, but my current environment is
> KDE. What I am completely clueless about (in this instance, anyway) is
> how to tell X to use Gnome instead, and where to tell it at?
> 

I don't know how it works in the distribution you are using.  I'm using
SuSE 6.2 and all I did was install Gnome (and the stuff that it needs)
and Enlightement (and the stuff that it needs).  Then from the console
prompt type "startx gnome-session" (lose the quotes) and if all goes
well, voila!   If you are using the k login manager, as root from the
control panel choose applications ->login manager.  Then choose the last
tab and at the bottom there is a place where you can add "gnome-session"
to the list.  Log out and when you got to log in again, gnome-session
should be there for you to chose from.

After Gnome is up, you can and choose the wm you want.  If you didn't
install enlightenment you can choose a differnt window manager. I think
it defaults to enlightenment, but I have brought Gnome up without
Enlightenment so I know you can -- it's a littls strange, but works well
enough for choosing a wm.  You can even use kwm, but Gnome does more
with Enlightenment.  I also made sure that I chose the Enlightenment
"clean" theme.  I think the default is "shinymetal" or something like
that and that one is confusing with Gnome on top of it.  I'm sure you
can fix that up and use other themes later, but "clean" is easier to
start with.

I play with lots of wm's but I still like the kde-kwm combo the best so
far.  Gnome is pretty cool though and if you've got multiple users it is
very nice to give them their preference by making several available.

Gail

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