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Gnome and KDE conflict - DamagePlanX - 2014-02-11
Hi
I installed KDE on a box that had gnome running already. Now I've got some weird issues going on. I'll try and give as much detail as I can.
I recently spun up a Debian 7.4 box and changed my sources to jessie. Then I ran apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade. Once up to date I ran apt-get install kde-full. At the end of that install I was prompted to choose my default login manager so I chose kdm because I wanted to switch to KDE exclusively.
Once I rebooted neither desktop launched automatically I got some errors about dependencies so I ran apt-get upgrade -f. After another reboot my machine boots into gnome but there are serious graphical glitches and some items and text aren't appearing. I think this is due to both shells running at once.
How can I get my machine to boot into kde on startup?
How can I fully remove gnome once that's done?
Thanks and please let me know if you need additional info.
EDIT: I got into KDE by switching sessions but I've still got some graphical glitches. How do I make sure gnome isn't running and as above, ideally remove it completely?
Gnome and KDE conflict - inittux - 2014-03-02
Hello and Welcome! Try running as root or as sudo: apt-get remove gnome-desktop that should remove the gnome desktop environment.