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changing wm in gnome and etc.
Hey all,
What with school and a summer job, its been a very long time
since I've had the opportunity to use Linux. And some friends and I
had a LAN party recently, which ended up involving me installing
windows on my once pure machine, and over-writing linux in the
process.
Anyway, I had been using Red Hat 6.2 in the past for several
months and was very much getting the hang of it. I had also tried
SuSE (good for me) and Corel (bad for me) and so I decided that,
with this fresh install, I would try Debian (potato). I did this because
I wasn't thrilled with what Red Hat had been doing in some
situation, because I like to try many options, and because I heard
that their package manager was very much cool.
But, I ran into a significant problem: Debian uses gnome
exclusively, but I was familiar with KDE. Also, the default window
manager seems to be too much for my system to handle. So, I
decided to install XFce. However, I can not figure out how to
changes the default window manager. I have spent several days
searching through config files and man documents and have found
no mention of it whatsoever. Anyone?
Oh, and somewhat less importantly: I despise graphical logins,
and I thought I told it to be diabled during the install. But it still
does it. I emacs-ed /etc/inittab because I thought I could change it
there as I did in Red Hat, but unlike Red Hat runlevles 2-5 are all
multi-user and the same. So I can't just switch runlevels to disable
the graphical login. Anyone know how to do this in debian?
Thanks, and sorry for the length of this message,
-Josh