Sunwatcher Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 I have just installed 2008.0 Powerpack on an older laptop. (It's the only version that works well.) I loaded new apps from the repositories, but with them came KDE. Now, when I boot up and login, it goes directly to KDE, not Gnome. Unfortunately, I also installed a GDM login page (from gnome-look.org), but I cannot choose between KDE and Gnome; there is no option given. Is there a way, from KDE, to start a Gnome session? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 Check if Gnome packages are installed. Then, start MCC, go to boot section and there you can set an option that will enable desktop and user choice when booting up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 (edited) You can choose either KDM or GDM. On KDM, simply disable autologin. If you switch to GDM, then delete the .dmrc file first, else it won't work properly. And, you should not install anything from gnome-look.org - mixing RPM packages is the safest way to break your system. GDM is easily available via URPMI. Edited July 30, 2009 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunwatcher Posted July 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 Thanks everyone. I got it going. In MCC there was actually no KDM listed as an option, only GDM. I had to do autologin and give the Gnome option for it to work. I also deleted .dmrc. All is fine now. I have two HP Omnibook 6100s; they are identical except for different size hard drives. The other one has been running 2008.0 since it came out with very few glitches. I always noticed though that when I installed Amarok KDE was also installed and the next boot always went to KDE. And thanks about the warning about gnome-look, but that login screen works fine on the other identical machine. I guess not so here. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 The binaries at Gnome-Look.org are generic ones, which expect to find configuration files and other binaries to trigger at very specific places. But since the specs of oendesktop.org do not cover every app and every distro, chances are that either you will do some damage installing stuff from there, or it will simply not work properly. But since 95%+ of the stuff there is prepackaged for your distro (either in official, or unofficial repositories) there should be no worries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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