Re: Can you run gnome and kde at the same time on an intel imac?
Re: Can you run gnome and kde at the same time on an intel imac?
- Subject: Re: Can you run gnome and kde at the same time on an intel imac?
- From: Chris Jones <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:03:46 +0000
Hi,
OK, I should confess I have never done this on OSX, but on linux, and
there it is certainly possibly to have both running at once, with the
same user account. I do it all the time. The OP was not specific to
OSX, but was suggesting it was not possible in general. I just wanted
to correct that mistake.
cheers Chris
On 28 Jan 2009, at 9:04PM, Jerry K wrote:
Chris,
I am going to dis-agree, at least on a theoretical level.
I have had work related requirements dual-headed Sun Workstations,
where I needed to run OpenWin/OpenLook on one head, and CDE in the
other.
I have not specifically had gnome up on one Mac OS X head, and KDE
up on head two, but I don't believe that it is impossible, based on
experiences from the Sun Solaris platform.
Jerry
Chris Jones wrote:
Hi,
GNOME and KDE use compatible desktop-application interfaces which
live in your home directory; you'll need to create a different
user. (It's barely possible that setting $DOTDIR to point
somewhere else would let KDE work; I don't think it's very well
tested.)
Not really true. Certainly you can run KDE and gnome sessions for
same user, I do it all the time. Of course, you cannot run them
both at the same time, connected to the same X display, but that is
the only constraint. As far as I am aware gnome stores its
configuration under various ~/.gXXX directories, whilst KDE uses
~/.kde, so they do not interfere.
I often have KDE running on the main :0 display whilst for the same
user, same machine, have gnome running on another DISPLAY
(connected to vnc).
cheers Chris
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