Linux KDE & GNOME question

[Mark Talluto]

On Oct 28, 2004, at 1:02 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:

> If he is using the standard display manager installed as part of 
> Mandrake, he can just choose KDE from a popup menu when logging in.  
> No need to restart or anything.  I think the GNOME display manager has 
> something similar (most *NIX systems do anymore; Solaris does, IRIX 
> does not).  As long as he has both installed, it's just a matter of 
> picking one when logging in.
>
> On Oct 28, 2004, at 3:53 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 28, 2004, at 12:49 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
>>
>>> That might be related to the window manager, so yes, you are correct 
>>> to investigate KDE vs. GNOME here.
>>>
>>
>> I am leaning towards the issue being a GNOME related problem as I do 
>> not see the same issue with KDE.  He is running Mandrake 10.1 while 
>> my test system is Linspire 4.5.  Is switching from GNOME to KDE a big 
>> deal?  Or can he just hit a pref button and restart?
>>
>>


Thanks Frank for the help!  I'll report back once I have some 
definitive results.  As more of us develop for the Linux platform down 
the road, info like this will be very helpful.


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Best regards,
Mark Talluto
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