Aqua-Soft ForumsI got a CD from my friend whitch contained the Linux Operating System "Suse 9.0" 3 CD's. It automatically partitioned my hardrive. Installed openoffice, and loads of other apps. Also it installed both KDE and Gnome. My only question is how do I turn Gnome on? There is no option that i can find in the operating system,and KDE turns on automatically on boot up. I know Gnome is there because it has its own folder and it was one of the features of Suse listed on the box that came with it. How do i change to Gnome? Do i have to use command? 
Suse, I Hate Kde, How Do I Switch To Gnome
restart, at the window where you log in i think there is a thing where you can choose window manager or something. you can choose gnome there.
it is a very very weak version of it, i dont like it at all. KDE is much better in my opinion.
this was for 8.0, they may have changed it for 9
i don't log in period. It just boots up. The only options besides boot up, are install, safeinstall, or something like that. But i will try it.
EDIT: I got the log on screen. Yay. 
unfortuanatly gnome isn't one of the options. I have kde, windowsmaker, a couple of others and failsafe. So how do i install Gnome?
there must be some option in your control centre (or whatever suse calls it) that is logging on a particular user, bypassing the login screen.
turn that feature off, and you should get a login screen, and with a bit of luck, an option to log into another desktop enviroment.
-fissy
Yeah, you don't want autologon on if you are running as root.
yeah, i found the logon screen, but as i said in my previous post, it appears that gnome isn't installed. (who knows why). So how do i install gnome.
use Suse's YAST control panel or what ever packagmeanagment to install gnome off the cd's.. then yo ucan cchoose it from the login screen
-bolero
The only problem is that SUSE9 comes with gnome 2.2. 2.2 sucks. I dont know why they didn't move to 2.4. It runs just fine here.
i wouldn't say sucks, i still preferred it to kde, it just doesn't have 2.4s polish
if gnome is installed already, check out if there is a tool called "switchdesk" installed. if there is, do a "switchdesk-gnome". if this won't help, look for .Xclients-default in your home dir, and if there is one - change it to "exec gnome-session".
if gnome is not installed - bolero told you how to handle this, so listen to the big man 
i haven't posted a while because my laptop is screwed and now i have limited access to the computer. I realized that Linux had deleted my windows partitions a couple of days ago. I got really pissed and pulled out my system restore disc. I formatted my harddrive got halfway through system restore, and it turned out my second system restore disc is corrupt. So now i have a blank partition on my Blank Windows. It doesn't even have command prompt. I'd have to boot command prompt from floopy. I didn't get a Windows Full installation CD only system restore discs, so i was forced to pirate a copy of Windows XP which wasn't exactly easy to get. I'm downloading it now on my brothers computer and still don't know if it will work. If it doesn't the only answer to my problem would be to replace my harddrive. I'll probably be away for a couple more days, or at least till my laptop starts running again.
no piracy talk. Even if you are desperate.
jesus man
yeah, linux is tricky s-h-i-t. the reason it partitioned your hard drive is becuase it was NTFS. it can only partition FAT and save your old partition at the same time.
i have SuSE on this computer, dual boot, it was hard as hell to find a way to run windows on a FAT32 partitioned hard-drive. good luck with windows again.
well, i talked to this toshiba person, and he's sending me system restore discs, but after i've seen fedora, i don't think i want to go back to windows no matter how easy it is.
contrasutra you can get 2.4 from SuSE as a bunch of rpms.
/me goes back to updating SuSE