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Article #964Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Perry Pip
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:00
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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:24:07 GMT, Code Monkey UK <codemonkey_uk@hotmail.com> wrote: >O'Neill wrote: >I have KDE, I want Gnome (as well). I'm hoping (sp?) that Gnome can >be added to the kdm (xdm for KDE) session list. You can. Just create an option in kdmconfig called 'gnome'. Then configure your Xsession script to start gnome and a gnome aware wm when the gnome argument is passed to it. But for a better alternative see http://www.open-systems.com/guichooser.html It will allow you to change environments without closing any apps. Perry >The most imressive Linux app I've since installing it is the GIMP >which is baes on GTK (infact AFAIK GTK was developed specifically for >GIMP and GNOME), so if GNOME is of the same quality them its going to >crush all before it with is might and glory! > >Thad > >Note [1] >As far as I can tell you can run KDE/Gnome apps without KDE/Gnome so >long as you have Qt/GTK installed, I'm not sure what is lost by not >having the desktop managers as I havent tryed it. -- Revenge of the nerds....GNUke Redmond!!! Perry Piplani www.open-systems.com perry@perrypip.com perrypip.netservers.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: perrypip@my-dejanews.com (Perry Pip) Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/10/19 Message-ID: <slrn72mmlh.kku.perrypip@apollo.netservers.com> X-Deja-AN: 402836041 References: <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <6v8nff$e5k$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <36212554.2137516@news.concentric.net> <6vtoa5$sbm$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <705sgj$7dg$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <36280343.7F1A64A2@ihug.co.nz> <3629c90f.51344027@news.concentric.net> <362B0400.8F1BB8D2@ihug.co.nz> <362b0c98.3307854@news.demon.co.uk> X-Trace: news12.ispnews.com 908810919 207.91.166.129 (Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:28:39 EDT) Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com Reply-To: perrypip@my-dejanews.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:28:39 EDT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss