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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