On 10/21/11 20:30, Timothy Pearson wrote: >> On 10/21/11 11:40, Timothy Pearson wrote: >> >> This morning, I had to restart because the Gnome desktop started to win >> its >> little fight with TDE and changed the background to the default image and >> all the icons to the Gnome style. Even the typeface in Thunderbird >> changed! >> >> I didn't *have* to reboot, but I needed to change some stuff in the BIOS >> anyway. >> > > Wow, I never heard of a desktop (Gnome in this case) behaving that badly > towards another before! KDE4 does try to launch Plasma if it isn't forced > into submission via dpkg-redirects, but I have no idea why Gnome thinks it > has the right to seize full desktop control. :-/ I tried to use Gnome back in the day (RH 7.3 or 9 or something - and no, I don't mean Fedora) but started with KDE under SuSE and have stuck with it. Still don't like it even though I'd sure save me a lot of trouble if I'd just go along with the crowd. Not. Are there pkgs I can safely remove that might prevent this in the future (only seen it the one time)? Peter -- Peter Laws / N5UWY National Weather Center / Network Operations Center University of Oklahoma Information Technology plaws@... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feedback? Contact my director, Matt Younkins, younkinsm@.... Thank you!