From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 19 18:35:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5732B16A400; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:35:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F379643D78; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:35:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip01.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.5]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IXZ00CBHFMOXPA1@mta01.eastlink.ca>; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:35:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.103]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip01.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:35:40 -0300 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:34:49 -0300 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <44467A52.2050100@greenmeadow.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <444682C9.3030705@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: <44467A52.2050100@greenmeadow.ca> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060309) Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke , "Harley D. Eades" Subject: Re: KDE + GNOME? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:35:40 -0000 Duane Whitty wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm contemplating installing GNOME . I am currently > using KDE. Does anyone know of any issues I should > be aware of before I proceed. I'm mostly concerned > about dependency issues, especially wtih respect to the > xorg clients and firefox. > > Essentially I would like to be able to choose which > environment I am going to run on a per-session basis. > Any hints, pointer, RTFMs, would be greatly appreciated. > > Sincerely, > > Duane Whitty 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 -- duane@greenmeadow.ca P.S. I looked at the FAQ and DOCs but didn't see this mentioned. Did I miss something?