How to get a KDE to run

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 10 May 2009 20:40, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> > Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>     I am on my 8.10 Linux and I used $ sudo aptitude install kde and it
> >> did so. But when I rebooted it still has Gnome Window Manager. It said
> >> something about looking at /etc/init.c and setting the default properly.
> >> I will try that and see.
> >
> > When it boots and you come to the gnome login screen you can choose what
> > kind of session you want and what you want as default.
>
>     Not on this laptop. I got it to stop at the screen to login with and
> clicked on options and looked at everything and no kde was even mentioned.
>
> So the heck with kde. It's too hard to get working on 8.10. I am sure it
> is all installed but it sure is not working...
>
>
> Karl

Hi Karl.

That's odd. Normally you enter your login name, then the session button 
appears, and you can select which you want to login to, KDE, Gnome, whatever.

Nigel.