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Kde desktop on ubuntu

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Hi This blog is for those people who actually getting bore using same interface from gnome in ubuntu. In that case kde can give you some fresh wind. Though the ubuntu distro with kde environment is kubuntu but still you can use kde in your ubuntu. It will actually install kde enviroment side by side. Just go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package. Now search for Kde desktop and install it. It will istall some required package and some kde default package together. Now when you start your system and your login screen is coming then at the button of the screen there is some option. From session option choose kde from dropdown menu. Then you will redirect to the kde environment. If you want to go back to the gnome environment then just logout and then select the "ubuntu desktop" session from dropdown menu of session option. You will now logon to the gnome environment. Now since gnome desktop environment use gdm (gnome desktop manager) for desktop management and kde

Enhance your Ubuntu experience

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Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distro now. This is really simple to use and at the same time highly customizable. There is a very strong community support behind you. Lots of theme and software to use with it. Still you some time fill bad. Here I am telling some trick to enhance your experience. Menu: Ubuntu menu is one of the thing that most of the people don't like. And there are lots of menu to use like gnome main menu, gno menu and so on. But the menu that I like most is cardapio menu. It is very much like windows menu. Check some screen shots here . It has native gtk interface. There are lots of plugin. You can search file, application from the menu window. You can even do google and wikipedia search right from the menu window. To install it add the ppa ppa:cardapio-team/unstable (how to add ppa? see other blog). And then you can install it directly from the package manager. Avant Windows Nevigator: Avant Window Nevigator (AWN) is a dock bar for linux. This i