Comments on: Quick way to switch from KDE to GNOME or viceversa

By: pravin wanjal

pravin wanjal — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:02:31 +0000

the command switchdesk gnome didnt worked correctly what should i do?

By: pravin wanjal

pravin wanjal — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:01:20 +0000

really its nice…

By: Gonz

Gonz — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:11:05 +0000

i can’t quit kde using de command kdeinit_shutdown. it says: Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can’t contact kdeinit!

what should i do?

By: jitender

jitender — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:59:50 +0000

i have redhat5. how can i install vlc player

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:59:34 +0000

@ Homericious

Same thing happening over here.

By: zouhei

zouhei — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:58:31 +0000

thank you so much for this article , it helped me a lot in my school work

By: Mukul

Mukul — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:39:54 +0000

How to know through command line which GUI i m in linux ..

Like If i am using KDE, it should say it

By: 2pac

2pac — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:34:34 +0000

John Doe: as root, run: yum install switchdesk
Press “Y” when you get asked to install packages…

Then you will have switchdesk :)

By: John Doe

John Doe — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:47:54 +0000

The problem I have is that Fedora 10 is telling me:
bash: switchdesk: command not found

By: jec

jec — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:50:14 +0000

Thanks! worked perfectly!

By: charl

charl — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:26:43 +0000

you didnt answer all the questions and problems, I also dont have the switchdesk command on my system

By: Skyler Sully

Skyler Sully — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:17:29 +0000

Well, I know this is a little late and wrong, but the answer to quitting kde after you start it with the startkde command is:

> kdeinit_shutdown

By: delfick

delfick — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:38:16 +0000

once using the startkde command, how do I close kde and return to gnome?

also it doesn’t close gnome, as i can still see and use the gnome-panel

also, would it even be possible to have kde on one face of the cube, and gnome on the other?

By: nick

nick — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:34:30 +0000

I’d like to see Gnome and KDE Running at the same time using XGL – imagine ctrl and the desktop swizzles round in all its XGL glory with a different desktops on different faces of the cube. That would be really sweet!

By: Homericious

Homericious — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:00:20 +0000

Foul! Doesn’t work! Command isn’t found and can’t be installed via “apt-get”. Not a standard X command!

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:11:38 +0000

great tip…but it’s “X Window” isn’t it?

By: ubuntus

ubuntus — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:48:03 +0000

any way this can be used on any of the UBUNTU variants?

By: n00b

n00b — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:03:24 +0000

excellent tip. I am using fedora core 5 and switch desk is good for swithing desktops