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[Ulin the Tech Mage]

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 14:46 -0600, Vinson Carrethers wrote:
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> Ulin the Tech Mage wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 13:34 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
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> > if i remember correctly in the kde 4 series, kwin has builting
> > compostiting effects without compiz
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> I'm a newbie and moved from kubuntu discussions to ubuntu because ubuntu uses
> Gnome as default.  When I installed ubuntu 8.04 from CD, I don't remember having
> a choice to get KDE3 or 4.
> 
> Am I missing something here?
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in synamptic:
edit > mark packages by task> select either Kubuntu Desktop or Kubuntu
KDE 4 desktop