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    gonzalo76 Guest

    Desktop Switching Tool in FC2

    Does anybody know where is the 'Desktop Switching Tool' in Fedora Core 2?
    Greetings
    gonzalo

  2. #2
    Pegasus Guest
    "switchdesk" ?

  3. #3
    gonzalo76 Guest
    Yes, switchdesk is in text mode, but I was looking a GUI mode, and I found it.
    I had to install switchdesk-gui - A graphical interface for the Desktop Switcher.

    Code:
    [root@pc-gonzalo gonzalo]# apt-get install switchdesk-gui
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
       switchdesk-gui (4.0.3-1)
    0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 30 not upgraded.
    Need to get 121kB of archives.
    After unpacking 217kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Get:1 http://download.fedora.us fedora/2/i386/os switchdesk-gui 4.0.3-1 [121kB]
    Fetched 121kB in 3s (32,1kB/s)
    Checking GPG signatures...
    Committing changes...
    Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
       1:switchdesk-gui         ########################################### [100%]
    Done.
    I don't know why, but Fedora 2 does not come with this package.
    Thank you for your reply.
    Greetings.

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    switchdesk-gui is part of the main distro. Did you do an upgrade install, or perhaps a minimal install first? It should have been installed for you. (the location you downloaded from is a mirror of the main release, i.e. a directory containing what is on the cds). If the main install failed to include that package it should be mentioned in bugzilla.
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    In my gnome and KDE it's there. you're the 2nd person to ask this
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    I did not do and upgrade install, I did a clean install, I always do I manual selecting packages and I selected the 'switchdesk' package during the installation, but I never saw the 'switchdesk-gui' package. I checked it twice.
    Anyway, thank you for your replies.
    Greetings
    gonzalo

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    mbjbdc Guest
    i did a clean install it not it mine either.

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    Hi pals,

    I could NOT find the Desktop Switching Tool too... I made a clean install of Fedora Core 2.


    Best Regards,

    Rykel
    Singapore

  9. #9
    gonzalo76 Guest
    Well, I'm not the only one.

    You can get switchdesk-gui from here

    switchdesk-gui-4.0.3-1.noarch.rpm is the latest version.

    Greetings

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