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Description of problem: When trying to swich my standard desktop into KDE, i seach for the "swichdesk" icon in the "start-menu" of KDE (having manually selected my session). But it isn't there! from the comandline, i get this: [kyrre@localhost kyrre]$ switchdesk Red Hat Linux switchdesk 4.0 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Red Hat, Inc Redistributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License Desktop Switcher GUI is unavailable. Please install the switchdesk-gui package or use switchdesk desktopname. [kyrre@localhost kyrre]$ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
It seems that switchdesk-gui is not installed on your machine. If you want to have GUI switchdesk you have to install switchdesk-gui subpackage. But the commandline switchdesk should allow you to switch desktop too. just Type: switchdesk KDE. For more info please take a look in man page
I understand that. But people that are completly new to linux and does not know what a "command prompt" is, just that it is some mysterius thing that looks a bit like DOS, won't...