[alfalfa male]

Interesting day. I reboot the system and it comes up KDE. What the hey????

I noticed this problem previously and re-installed the Gnome version (clean install).

Why is it doing this? (design feature or flaw?)

How do I recover my Gnome desktop?

Havin' some fun, now!

Al

[slick50]

Interesting day. I reboot the system and it comes up KDE. What the hey????

I noticed this problem previously and re-installed the Gnome version (clean install).

Why is it doing this? (design feature or flaw?)

How do I recover my Gnome desktop?

Havin' some fun, now!

Al

Did you install the kde desktop in gnome or visa versa?
The login manager (gdm) in gnome will allow you to
login with different desktops installed. Check that first. I really don't think it's
possible to login to kde without you initially installing it from the
repo.(gnome version).

Also, in the control center I think it will give you a
option on the desktop environment you use.

Not much help with the kde bits...

ken

[alfalfa male]

Ken:

Sorry I didn't respond sooner. Nope, I installed nada from the repos except Gnome stuff. I will try to see if I can get it back to a Gnome desktop, otherwise that would be a real booger if I had to re-install from the LiveCD each time or have to make my own LiveCD in root before powering down the PC.

Al

[slick50]

Well I was thinking if you have PCLinuxOS official on one partition and PCLOS-Gnome on another...
Maybe you have the grub bootloader setup to boot into (Official PCLOS) kde desktop?
e.g, The grub where you can toggle between o/s's for boot?

If that's the case then yes it will boot into kde or gnome depending on the grub setup.

Example:

title PCLOS-Gnome-Lite
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 acpi=on splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd.img

title PCLOS-Gnome
kernel (hd0,12)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda13 acpi=on splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,12)/boot/initrd.img

As you see here notice where the partitions mount on the same drive
but root=/dev/sda13
and /boot/initrd.img are different as you see.

That's all I can say why it boots to kde. Unless you pulled in kde bits from the repos?


Thanks,

slick50

[alfalfa male]

Ken:

Nope, I only have PCLOS Gnome installed on this machine. I have not, to my knowledge, downloaded anything KDE that I'm aware of that would cause it to do this.

I guess I'll do a "clean" re-install and see if it occurs when I reboot. To test that theory, I will only install from the LiveCd and not download anything from Synaptic repos when I do a reboot.

We shall see.

Al

[MerReady]

Hello,

I running both PCLinuxOS on 2 different partitions. I had no problem until I installed K3b and K9Copy. Afterward I got the KDE desktop. All I did was uninstall K3b, K9copy and anything else using kde and I got my gnome desktop back. I guess I'll have to rely on Nero.

[shane2peru]

I too have this problem. I don't think I installed any KDE stuff, however it keeps booting into the KDE. I just log out and switch session to Gnome and tell it to make that my default, however it doesn't listen very well, next log in -> KDE again! Hmm, stubborn little thing! Any ideas on fixing this?

Shane

[slick50]

I too have this problem. I don't think I installed any KDE stuff, however it keeps booting into the KDE. I just log out and switch session to Gnome and tell it to make that my default, however it doesn't listen very well, next log in -> KDE again! Hmm, stubborn little thing! Any ideas on fixing this?

Shane

Guys,

You have to be pulling in kde bits. eg kde base, kde libs, ect.
If you want kde apps? You will get all the kde dependencies with it.
Thats because gnome is tied in the main repositories.
There is gnomebaker, brasero, graveman, and other burning apps for gnome. Search synaptic.
Also if you run a full upgrade and you have compiz installed you will drag the whole kde desktop in.
Just watch what you are about to install before you commit to the changes.


Sorry but you will have to be selective on the apps you want to
add to keep the gnome desktop and keep kde out.


slick

[shane2peru]

Ok, I think I have a slightly different problem. Every log in complains of my .dmrc file not being correct. It says it must be set to 644 permissions and owned by the user. Or my home directory must be owned by the user which it is. I logged into KDE opened terminal and fixed this file and logged out and logged back in and had the same error! The funny thing is that everything was already set correctly on that file! I can't seem to figure this out. I don't mind having the KDE apps, but think that Gnome should be set as my default and not run into a problem with this. That is what I always do with Ubuntu.

Shane

[slick50]

Well, I don't know I went ahead and installed kde to see what was up? I didn't see a problem. I set the gnome desktop to default login from the gdm and it took me straight into the gnome desktop? Of course I will uninstall it but I did not see the problem? Unless you have enable it in the PCC? The gdm works for me in this matter.

I will look into it further but I don't see it?:roll:


slick

[shane2peru]

Well, I have played around with my userID and groups trying to get it so I could access my data on my Ubuntu /home directory, so honestly I'm not overly surprised I keep having problems. I'm giving PCLinux a good solid try, and so far I'm impressed, and very pleased with it. Has a little of a better feel then Ubuntu, and Compiz works for me out of the box.

Shane

[lsatenstein]

I have to download libraries, and anything marked gnome, then the gnome choice option for desktop appears.

Of course I set the user default to gnome. It works until beryl is started, then I lose the top line of windows, where all the menu options etc. is stored.

That forces a ctl-alt-backspace, which itself does not always work.

I am really disappointed.

[jellospitr]

Hi all,
I had a similar incident where KDE showed up on default vs. Gnome. However, I found it was after I had installed Xine. Due to it's KDE dependencies, several KDE libraries where installed. At the next reboot from my liveUSB, my system booted with KDE. I then used Synaptic to uninstall Xine and then rebooted. Gnome came up just fine after that. As a reminder, I am using a liveUSB vs HD install. I don't know if that makes a difference or not, but it's something to consider.

Hope this helps,
Jellospitr

[sarcastic_bastard]

I remember when I updated my install of Gnome-Lite, it rebooted back into KDE, which sort of threw me, but I like having KDE on hand, or at least the KDE core stuff anyway, as some of the apps are handy (Konqueror, Amarok, etc), but overall, I prefer the Gnome experience, and this one is particularly nice, being very beautiful (don't believe I've ever described a desktop quite that way before, but yeah), and having all the simplicity and functionality I've come to expect from PCLinuxOS. Besides, it was simple to simply log back out and set Gnome as the default.

It is hands down the best, most functional, and simplest to use distro I think I have ever used. The Gnome rocks, but having KDE stuff/apps at hand is also good. It's all about choice, and I'm fine with (almost) everything so far.

[Komet]

Hi all,
I had a similar incident where KDE showed up on default vs. Gnome. However, I found it was after I had installed Xine. Due to it's KDE dependencies, several KDE libraries where installed. At the next reboot from my liveUSB, my system booted with KDE....

Hope this helps,
Jellospitr

I learned that one the hard way too. I installed K3b and didn't really pay attention to the dependencies that were installed along with it. The next reboot came with a KDE desktop. A subsequent uninstall of K3b and all was well with Gnome again.