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totem package

Installing totem on kubuntu switches users to gnome desktop

Asked by Sven Boden

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In kubuntu hardy alpha3 when you install totem (the media player):

#start up a konsole
sudo aptitude install totem

the desktop is switched from KDE to gnome. I did not found an easy way to switch back.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) said : 		#1

Thank you for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report and we are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu

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Jonathan Jesse (jjesse) said : 		#2

When you instaleld Totem, did it also install GDM? Were you then asked whether or not you want to use KDM (KDE) or GDM (GNOME) as your display manager?

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Jonathan Jesse (jjesse) said : 		#3

When you instaleld Totem, did it also install GDM? Were you then asked whether or not you want to use KDM (KDE) or GDM (GNOME) as your display manager?

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Sven Boden (svenboden) said : 		#4

Thanks for answering... the original bug I raised (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/187177) also continued.

The problem seems to be in using aptitude. Aptitude installs also the "recommended packages". And the last reasoning on the bug was that if you choose to use aptitude you have to live with the consequences ;-).

If you compare installation of totem between aptitude and e.g. apt-get, apt-get installs a lot less extra packages. These extra packages seem to have the effect of partially switching KDE to Gnome (but without active window manager it seems). This all happened without requesting permission to switch.

"Problem" is not really solved, but I switched to apt-get for the moment.