Re: changing wm in gnome and etc.

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>You can get further information (and where to get your KDE packages)
>>> this page:  http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/
>>thanks, i checked this and links to the debian packages are dead
>>but i'll try again later.
>eep!
>>>try dpkg --purge gdm ; the purge will wipe the package and all its
>>i tried this and it said that gdm did not even exist, and so it could
>>not be done.  Then i messed around awhile in dpkg and found the
>>package and told it to go away.  Unfortunately, even after a reboot,
>>I still have my graphical logins.  And now there are two more
>>problems: i downloaed and installed xfce and ran xfce_setup as
>>bruce recommended. Everything looked good, but now when i log
>>in through my evil graphical login, a clock cursor is shown for a few
>>seconds and it goes back to graphical login.  And... my mouse
>>used to barely respond. Now it doesn't at all.  Perhaps a re-install
>>is in order, now that I understand this thing a bit better.
>I tend to agree..something is majorly futzed.

In /etc/inittab do you have a line like:

x:345:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/{prefdm|xdm -nodaemon|gdm}

You said you already adjusted the "id:5:initdefault:" line to 
read 3. If you have a line like the aforementioned did you take 
the "3" out (representing the runlevel you don't want GUI logon 
with).

Runlevel 5 is for servers meant to be X session managers, if 
Debian is providing that at runlevels other than 5 I think
they have a serious standards compliance/interoperability
problem.  In general it seems that Debian feels free to
deviate at will, my recommendation is to avoid at all cost,
your life will be easier. 

(Note: To all Debian lover's,  diversity of opinion is the
proof of free society, your free to say that RedHat sucks,
so no need to flame/retaliate).

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