KDE and GNOME running simultaneously on Mandriva 10.1

[Jiffyman]

O.k. this is weird. Whenever I start KDE I get GNOME desktop icons and the background that I put on gnome. I have transparent panels and I can see my KDE background under it. I'm running compiz fusion and when I rotate the cube I can see my KDE desktop Icons. It's sorta like GNOME is running on top of KDE and it's pretty annoying.

Here are a couple screen shots hopefully they will explain whats going on better than I can.

Here is a second Image and you can see my KDE desktop icons on the right.

My bad about the background, but you know you like it.

 

[patrickv]

by default you are running KDE, why not simply remove gnome ? not that you use it anyways.
mainly everything on your screen in KDE, the taskbar, all the icons except "thrash (the right one),computer and Home"

 

[Jiffyman]

I was thinking about removing Gnome, but I use Gnome apps on Kde. Can I remove the Gnome-base and still be able to run Gnome apps in Kde?

 

[patrickv]

gnome apps can run on KDE with no problem, you don't need gnome to run gnome-apps

 

[Jiffyman]

O.k. I'm going to uninstall it and let you know what happens.

 

[Jiffyman]

I uninstalled and reinstalled gnome. Everything is fine now.

 

[littleblackxj]

Yeah thats odd. That happened to me when i ran another xserver and it ran in the root window (aka the background). Does compiz come preinstalled on madriva? If not the only thing i can think of is that when you created a startup file for compiz you might have accidently told it to launch gnome as well causing it to run in the -root window.