To my surprise, Gnome was not install at all.. Is there any way I can "fill the gaps" without actually installing the Gnome desktop itself? If so, how? If not, will installing the Gnome desktop itself give me what I am looking for; ie. If so, then what's the best way to install the Gnome desktop in my situation? You can install programs any file owned by a package, really by name, i. But consider that pulling in "useful parts of Gnome" will probably drag most of Gnome along.
These may be useful as well, but might try and install bits of the gnome desktop as dependencies:. To check subgroups and its packages use:. There you have a list of package and you can choose these you want.
But be careful for dependencies - some of them needs gnome itself. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Improved Magnifier with caret tracking, press F7 to activate caret. Lock screen background customization. A new geolocation framework allows features like automatic timezone updates when traveling and location detection in Maps. Boxes gains support for importing filesystem images.
Improved user interface for Contacts Improved automatic scaling for high pixel density displays. Improved application selection in the shell Overview.
Improved, integrated system status menu. Redesigned gnome-tweak-tool , with improved design, extension integration, and expanded functionality. System Status Area. The new System Status Area unifies many settings that had their own icon and menu in previous releases, such as wireless and other networking. Not all potential features are displayed at all times; for example, the volume slider for a microphone does not appear when a microphone is not present, and WiFi options do not appear when a wireless device is not detected.
GNOME in Fedora will offer a new, visually appealing application for browsing and installing applications. GNOME Software shows information relevant to users, such as descriptions, screenshots, reviews and more. Applications describe themselves to Software and other supporting tools using the AppData Specification.
In support of this functionality, Fedora contributors have combined their efforts to offer assistance and patches for AppData support to upstream projects. Further reading. KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.
Major changes have been made to user experience, personal information management, and performance aspects of the platform. User experience changes Taskbar has been ported to QtQuick , providing more consistent and fluent behavior. Battery widget now supports keyboard brightness, and displays status for multiple batteries in peripherals, such as in mice and keyboards. Notification popups now have a configure button, allowing customization of the type of notification displayed.
Kmix , the KDE sound mixer, performs better and more stably, in addition to adding media player controls to the widget. Improved user interface design in Kwallet. Kolourpaint , a simple painting application, now supports the WebP image format.
The JuK audio player and tagger adds support for playback and metadata editing of Ogg Opus format files. Personal Identity Management changes Improved Kontact Suite , including better archiving, scheduled mail sending, simple message filtering interface, better notifications, and scam detection in Kmail. Better indexing and various improvements to Nemopuk make searches up to 6x faster, adds indexing for ODF, docx and other document formats, and improves backup and restoration functionality.
Alternatively, install the switchdesk used to switch desktop from command-line and switchdesk-gui used to switch desktop from GUI. Once you have installed the above programs, launch the desktop switching program switchdesk-gui by searching for it in the Activities search bar.
After it opens, select the default desktop from the list of available desktop environments, and click OK. You can also switch your Fedora desktop from the command-line by simply passing the selected desktop environment as the only argument to the switchdesk command, for example, to switch to cinnamon , run the following command.
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We are thankful for your never ending support. Thank you! It works just fine for me on Fedora I just log out and switch at the login manager, then log back in. I left out the ' ' at the beginning the first time and it gave me an error. But, when I properly included that, I was able to install multiple Desktop Environments without an issue. Thanks for the feedback.
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