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Post June 18th, 2007, 11:50 pm

Ok so I've downloaded and installed the K Desktop Environment and i dont know how to set it up as the default GUI for my machine, ive updated my system since then and it has the folowing spec
512 of ddr 133 ram,
a 750 MHZ PIII copermine CPU,
nVidia Riva TNT II graphics card,
Atheros AR5005G 802.11abg wireless NIC,
AC97 sound and
200 gigs of hard disk space.

everything is up running and happy i just prefer the look of KDE
i don't believe I've left anything out but my other question is will this computer handle KDE smoothly or will i get lag left and right?
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Post June 18th, 2007, 11:50 pm

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Post June 19th, 2007, 3:23 pm

I don't know about Linux but FreeBSD uses the xinitrc file to determine what's used in the GUI.
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Post June 20th, 2007, 12:03 am

There used to be a command known as switchdesk, I wonder if it's still there. But just give it a try, type this at the terminal: switchdesk kde

Otherwise you can edit xinitrc as Don2007 pointed out.
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Post June 29th, 2007, 5:25 pm

god i feel retarded! its under options on the login screen XP
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Post July 6th, 2007, 2:36 pm

lol dontcha hate it when somethings right in front of you and you dont see it ;]
happens to me all the time..
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Post July 20th, 2007, 8:45 pm

oh well not the first time and defiantly not the last time. i just hope that my soundcard issue isnt something so simple
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