From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 20 22:54:02 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 7ECC116A42A for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:54:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao03.cox.net (eastrmmtao03.cox.net [68.230.240.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9619343D55 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:53:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([72.200.25.154]) by eastrmmtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060420225358.MWBF14554.eastrmmtao03.cox.net@serene.no-ip.org>; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:53:58 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3KMrv6Y040939; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:53:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:53:52 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Duane Whitty Message-ID: <20060420175352.0dfbb38f@localhost> In-Reply-To: <44467A52.2050100@greenmeadow.ca> References: <44467A52.2050100@greenmeadow.ca> Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-Crazed Hippies X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:54:03 -0000 On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:58:42 -0300 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. Yes, KDE and GNOME can both co-exist peacefully on the same system. As for an easy way to select which desktop/window manager you want to use, check out x11-wm/selectwm. -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"