[ale] Switching from KDE to Gnome

[James P. Kinney III]

Most likely the gnome stuff is not installed. Use YAST and the install
CD's and put in Gnome.

Also for developing code with gnome you need the *-devel packages.
(prior post referencing gnome.h)

You don't _have_ to use gnome to develop a gui in C with. All you really
need is gtk. www.gtk.org 

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 22:55 -0500, ringo wrote:
> I went into yast and found the /etc/sysconfig editor. I changed the
> Default window manager from KDE to gnome, and the display manager from
> kdm to gdm. Then I rebooted. It asked me for a user name and password in
> while booting up (it usually does not), but then it booted to KDE
> anyway. Any ideas?
> Thanks
> Ringo
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> ringo
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:33 PM
> To: 'Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Switching from KDE to Gnome
> 
> Thanks, I'll dig around in Yast for a while. Here is why I'm talking
> about switching to Gnome.
> I'm working on a robot that is controlled by a laptop via the serial
> port. I'm writing the code in C. I would like to start doing some basic
> graphics so I can draw a mp of where the robot has been. Just grids or a
> 2d array of rectangles, that sort of thing. Since I have a lot of stuff
> already written in C I would rather not switch langs to python or
> something and have to start over. I have a book called "Beginning Linux
> Programming" That covers TCL, perl, etc. The only thing I have seen so
> far that is in C if Gnome-GTK. The book says you have to be running
> gnome to use it. I tried compiling a sample program from a KDE terminal
> window and it could not find things like gnome.h.
> So, I'm assuming I need to use gnome for this to work, is this correct?
> Is there another easy way to do some easy graphics and Gui stuff? I'm a
> hardware guy, not a programmer so the easier the better.
> Thanks
> Ringo
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> James P. Kinney III
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:23 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: RE: [ale] Switching from KDE to Gnome
> 
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 21:59 -0500, ringo wrote:
> > Huh??
> 
> Too much fun and games...
> 
> Most distribution have a config setting that determines which X
> interface to use. In the RedHat derivatives, that setting hids
> in /etc/sysconfig/desktop. Since you are using SUSE, I would bet it hids
> somewhere in YAST as that is "the SUSE way". 
> 
> The slow way is to dig in the /etc/X11 directory and figure out the
> xconfig settings that are used to start things.
> 
> Some strings to look for are "gnome-session" and "gnome-panel".
> 
> Bear in mind, the default install on SUSE is KDE and it may not have
> installed the gnome stuff. The RedHat derivatives do the same to KDE
> (along with some more mangling of themes that seem to _really_ annoy the
> KDE fans [I guess the gnome fans are just more tolerant of theme
> mangling since RH mangles the gnome stuff as well]</flame-bait>)
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> > Fulton Green
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:49 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Switching from KDE to Gnome
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:45:32PM -0500, ringo wrote:
> > > I'm using SUSE 9.2 and have been using KDE. Now I want to try Gnome,
> > how
> > > do I switch? 
> > 
> > http://Fedora.RedHat.com/ <rimshot/>
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