Can I have multiple desktops types and how???

[PolloE]

Hi, today I was just looking at wikipedia, and searched up ubuntu, as we all know there is also Kubuntu and Xubuntu, well what I didnt know is that they were called that way because of there desktop environments;

Kubuntu (K) has the KDE desktop
Xubuntu (X) has the XFCE desktop
Ubuntu as GNOME

so i was wandering if i could have KDE and XFCE on Ubuntu, if yes how.

I also wanted to know weather i could switch between them without rebooting, or without data loss.

Thx!

[finer recliner]

yes you can! :)


tutorial for installing KDE4 on a system running ubuntu 8.10:
http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/120/26/

its a similar process for XFCE

every time you login, just click "session options" (or whatever its called in the corner) to choose which desktop environment to use.

[PolloE]

Thanks for the help to get KDE, it seems way easier than i thought but there is still one thing i need...

You said that it is a similar process for XFCS but i dont know what the link is, the one u put in System>Administration>Software Sources>Third Party Apps...

Plz help with this part

Thx!

[ooburns]

The only reason you had to add another repository was to get KDE4 instead of the default 3.5. To get xfce, all you have to do is sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop.

[finer recliner]

http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/xubuntu