Re: changing wm in gnome and etc.

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

On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:42:02PM -0400, rambozo@MailAndNews.com wrote:
> Hey all,
> 	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.  

that it is..it's almost too easy to install (and then throw away if you 
don't like) programs..I do wish it'd stop "recommending" gnome libs for
xmms when it runs just fine without it.
 
> 	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?

earlier this month, Troll Tech dual licensed KDE under the QPL and GPL,
thus, it now has the blessing of the High Priests of Debian.  You can
get further information (and where to get your KDE packages) from this
page:  http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/


> 	Oh, and somewhat less importantly: I despise graphical logins, 

Same here ^.^

> and I thought I told it to be diabled during the install.  But it still 
> does it.  

that's fairly typical of debian..it takes *way* too long, imo, to 
do not just the install, but all the tweaks to get things `just right'
(but that could just be me ^.^)

>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?  

try dpkg --purge gdm ; the purge will wipe the package and all its config
files (including all the scripts in the appropriate /etc/rc?.d directories)
no more graphical logins ^.^

> 
> Thanks, and sorry for the length of this message,
> 
> -Josh

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