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Peter Hunter peterslinuxbox@ntlworld.com wrote:
Hi everyone, Two questions that I know you can all answere for me!
I have just installed Suse 9.2 pro, and for a change I decided to install and run Gnome, but I don't like it too much and want to go back to KDE. I have installed KDE from the suse DVD but how do I now change desktops?
Right - we'll start here... which display manager are you currently using? gdm? kdm? xdm? if it's kdm or gdm, you should be able to tell it what type of session you want, with gdm it'll also ask you if that's what you want to make your default session, and all will then be well in the world (I don't know much about kdm, but I use gdm on this 'ere machine of mine and have selected different sessions depending on mood previously, never KDE though, that annoyed me too much ;)
Maybe I should download the latest version of KDE first and install and run that?
You shouldn't need to.
Anyway, that's the first question. The second is, if I download the latest Kernal, how do I install and run that?
ITYM Kernel... and, erm, I'm not sure in SuSE what the correct procedure is, in debian I can make shiny packages for kernels very easily, I think in SuSE it's more a configure -> compile -> install chain, and you'll probably find the kernel howto[1] of use.
Oh, just one other, how do I re-boot the GUI without having to re-boot the computer?
Just Logout of the current session, if it's Gnome that you're trying to logout of it'll be under Computer -> Log Out, or Desktop -> Log Out (depending on the version of Gnome).
Many thanks. I await the flood of replies (Pleaseeeeeeee!!)
Drip... drip... drip...
[1] http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html
Thanks, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk