KDE + GNOME?

Greg Groth ggroth at gregs-garage.com
Wed Apr 19 19:01:35 UTC 2006


> Perhaps I should be more clear.  Is there anyone reading
> who currently has KDE 3.5.x and GNOME 2.12.x installed
> concurrently on their systems?  Did you experience installation
> problems with respect to dependencies?   Are you able to choose
> between running KDE and GNOME as simply as by running
> startkde or startgnome (or whatever the start gnome command is)?
> 
> I like KDE and some of its applications and I don't necessarily wish
> to switch to using something else exclusively.  I have many good
> things about GNOME and would like to try it out.  I want to be able
> to switch back-and-forth whenever I want.  Has anyone else tried this?
> 
> Thanks for your responses.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Duane Whitty

I have both installed on a 6.0 box, had no real problems with 
dependencies that I can recall.  I use KDM to switch between the two.

Cheers.
Greg Groth


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