-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:26:53PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:46, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had > > > Sarge installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just > > > did a clean install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new > > > user I don't have a favorite windowing system that I prefer and > > > was wondering if someone to point me to a good link that would > > > describe the strengths and weaknesses or pros and cons of each > > > system. KDE installed as default with Sarge and Etch so I > > > assume they chose that for a reason and it is the only one I > > > have used. I have looked but haven't been able to find a good > > > comparison them. > > > > You're better off just installing all three and test them out. I > > think they are pretty feature-equivalent these days. > > As I had stated previously I installed from the > debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, > which sounds like a good one, when I boot will I be given a choice > of which system to start or will I have to manually close KDE and > start one of the others? Although compared to Windoze XP I am > thrilled with KDE I do think I would like to take a look at the > others ones. > > Thanks, Randy
There should be a click-able button called "Sessions". If you click it KDM will present you with a group of sessions to start (KDE, Failsafe*, Terminal), just pick the one you want. KDM is a smart display manager so it's able to automatically pick up when you install/uninstall window managers from your computer. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGF6aC/o7Q/FCvPe0RAoXfAKCwZI//2IREFC83lV/ctwAVNTO8HACeIVZL NEmVirEVAEp6XUZvhcveZLg= =PYkC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
