Re: changing wm in gnome and etc.

["Timothy R. Geier" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:12:05AM -0400, rambozo@MailAndNews.com wrote:
> >You can get further information (and where to get your KDE packages) from
> > 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. 

> 
> -Josh

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