How Do I Switch to KDE from Gnome with Fedora 7?

Chris Mohler cr33dog at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 23:09:37 UTC 2007


On 7/10/07, Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I installed F7 I did so from DVD and the Gnome desktop was
> loaded.  That was fine with me since I have always like the look
> better.  However, xemacs is not working properly due to something not
> working between it and metacity, and reports are that the KDE desktop
> doesn't have the same problem.  So when I looked for the login
> switcher I'm used to, no KDE!
>
> Now I've found that I could have installed the KDE desktop through the
> Live CD, but how do I install it now?
>
> I've tried
>
>   yum list "*desktop*"
>
> and others but find nothing there.
>
> Is there a way to switch without going though another install?

yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"

HTH,
Chris




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