[GTALUG] Ubuntu with all-desktops-in-one ?

[Alex Volkov]

Hi William,

This doesn't answer your original question, but I'd install minimal
system and then install all the desktop environments, because minimal
system is a lot easier to troubleshoot than installer environment.

You then can install all the desktop environments you want with tasksel
tool -- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel

KDM/GDM are smart enough to detect all desktop environment, though you'd
be better off installing only one of these.

https://www.google.com/search?q=kdm+select+desktop+environment&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMI76vC4ayfxwIVAxs-Ch05KQA1&biw=1600&bih=728

In debian these days, you can install one of the desktops by just
installing one of the task-desktop packages, I don't know if this method
trickled down to ubuntu yet.

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/task-desktop

Alex.

On 10/08/15 04:02 PM, William Park wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With Debian, you can install all desktops (kde, gnome, xfce, etc) from
> ISO at first, and then choose which the desktop when you log in via
> gdm/kdm.
>
> Is there a version for Ubuntu which allows you to do that?
> Right now, you have to choose/install different ISO for each desktop.
>
> Or, do I have to start with "minimal install", and then install all
> the desktops afterwards?  But, I don't know if gdm/kdm will pick up
> the desktops.