[Novalug] Can gnome and kde coexist?

Anthony Soucek monkeywrenchit@gmail.com
Fri May 22 21:10:05 EDT 2009


How do you get to a tty in gnome with no panel?

On 5/21/09, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 May 2009 9:20:07 pm Anthony Soucek wrote:
>> I had xubuntu and installed kde and it's very nice. I had another pc
>> with gnome and tried to install kde, couldn't find it in add/remove
>> programs,
>
> The package you wanted was "kubuntu-desktop" (other options include
> "xubuntu-
> desktop" for xfce and "ubuntu-desktop" for gnome).
>
>> installed compiz (compviz-whatever) now gnome has no panel.
>
> Is gnome-panel running?  Check in a TTY (ps -ef | grep gnome-panel). Try
> "killall gnome-panel" in the TTY to make it respawn.
>
>> Ideally I would like to be able to choose from between the three
>> desktop environments on both my machines but it seems like you have to
>> pick kde or gnome.
>
> I had both installed on my machine.  Only issue was the drive getting mighty
> full.
>
> --
> Mackenzie Morgan
> http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
> apt-get moo
>


-- 
Anthony Soucek



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