How to change from KDE to Gnome (newbie question)

[AljoshaNL]

Hello,

I was wondering how i can change my desktop... When i do

startx

i get KDE, but i wanted Gnome! I'm using SuSE 9.1.

I searched google and found that I have to do

switchdesk

, but it says that the command is not found. I tryed

apt-get install switchdesk

witch resulted in

package not found

Also searched the YaST online update, but found nothing.
So what is the way of doing this?

Thanks in advance...

aljosha

[trickster]

To change from KDE to GNOME, you log out and log in again. You should find that there is a selector on the login menu which says "kde". Click on it and choose "gnome", then press Enter. It should boot up into GNOME.

[Lovechild]

For GNOME you might want to consider a distro that doesn't totally wreck GNOME - something like Fedora or Ubuntu works nicely.

[Schotty]

YaST ought to be able to do that. Plus if you select from GDM or KDM a different desktop and save that as the new default for that user, you should have that new one saved as the one startx starts up.

[AljoshaNL]

Hi,

Thanks for all the replies,
but when I log in, i havn't got a graphical interface,
or is the selector in the console?

Aljosha.