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- <li><em>date</em>: Thu Mar 3 08:23:32 2005</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)</li>
- <li><em>in-reply-to</em>: <002301c51fa4$d1427be0$bb00a8c0@Ringo></li>
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- <li><em>subject</em>: [ale] Switching from KDE to Gnome</li>
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 [<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> 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 [<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> 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 [<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> 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?
> >
> > <a rel="nofollow" href="http://Fedora.RedHat.com/";>http://Fedora.RedHat.com/</a> <rimshot/>
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