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How to offer KDE, Unity and Gnome3 desktop login selection?

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We're looking at deploying 12.04 across the entire enterprise (several hundred desktops). We've selected KDE as the default desktop for all users for the current distribution but we have a policy where people can run Unity or Gnome3 if they want to.

What is the best deployment approach? Is it installing kubuntu and then installing the appropriate gnome packages. If so, then which gnome packages?

Or is it installing ubuntu and then getting KDE recognized in /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions? If so, which packages to install?

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answered 1 Year ago intssive · Accepted Answer

If you install Kubuntu across all computers (which I would suggest since it seems like you have decided that KDE will be the default desktop environment), users who want to run Unity or Gnome Shell can run either of the following commands:

For Unity:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

For Gnome Shell (commonly referred to as Gnome3):

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

Or Gnome Fallback (similar to classic Gnome)

sudo apt-get install gnome-fallback

Alternatively either package can be searched for and installed from Ubuntu-Software-Center.

Users will then be able to choose their desired desktop session when they log in. (this will be automatically set up, and should be fairly obvious, I just forget how KDE's login screen shows it, so I won't say exactly).