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I've just installed mageia 3 with gnome. I had been used to gnome for the past 3 years (from mandriva 2010) but this new version isn't to my liking at all. I find it unpractical to use, not intuitively "customable"... Is there a way to change to KDE? How to do it?

intall task-kde4

then you can select it when you sign in.

Thanks dbg.
For any newcomer, selection is done after clicking on "session" under the sign-in of your name.

Very strange (bug?): I have installed " task-kde4" from the Mageia control center. And had been using kde for the past several days. Then yesterday kde wouldn't shut-down the computer. I did a hard reset before going home. This morning no more kde, mageia session is directly in GNOME and no option for KDE upon signing in. In MCC, " task-kde" doesn' t seem to be installed at all.

So I had to reinstall it.

From your description, seems you box has more problems than only GNOME/KDE.

May i ask why you un-solved the thread? As your question was answered ...

doktor5000 wrote:From your description, seems you box has more problems than only GNOME/KDE.

It's possible.

May i ask why you un-solved the thread? As your question was answered ...

Yes, my question was answered on how to switch from gnome to kde but then kde disappeared, and I found myself with my original problem + a new one (kde disappeared), so I unsolved the thread.
But I installed again task-kde and KDE is back. So I will consider the case closed and mark the post SOLVED. If I have other similar problems with kde not shutting down and disappearing I will not post or report them here.
My apologizes for the switch and the confusion.

In summary for everyone, to be able to use KDE do the following:

1) go to MCC (Mageia Control Center)
2) search for task-kde and install it
3) restart your computer
4) at the prompt for signing-in, select kde in the drop down menu "session"