[techtalk] KDE vs Gnome

[Beverly Guillermo]

You have it your setup to enter X automatically, so you're running
at runlevel 5, rather then runlevel 3.  Runlevel 3 is the usual
initialization of Linux that brings you to the console login.  
Check your /etc/inittab for what its saying and edit it to use 3
if you want the console first rather then X.

If you want to run any windowmanager without booting directly into
X, you have to create .xinitrc file in your home directory.  In
that file, you want to put 'exec <windowmanager execuatable>' and
it'll start up when you enter startx.  If you don't have an .xinitrc
already available, there is probably a global file defined somewhere
on your system.  The global file is called something like xinitrc
or Xdefaults or something like that and usually they're in /etc/X11.

Beverly

> From: owner-techtalk at linuxchix.org
> [mailto:owner-techtalk at linuxchix.org]On Behalf Of JoAnn Elliott
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:44 PM
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: RE: [techtalk] KDE vs Gnome
> 
> 
> thanks for that, it was one of my questions, and now I have another.
> 
> I installed and let it automatically start the windows thing, and 
> I do get a
> choice, but when I want to logout it closes the whole system, when what I
> want to do is get out of the windows and into just the prompt. Can you
> please advise me how to do that?
> 
> Jo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-techtalk at linuxchix.org
> [mailto:owner-techtalk at linuxchix.org]On Behalf Of Gail Allinson
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:20 PM
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] KDE vs Gnome
> 
> 
> Just This Girl wrote:
> >
> > I would like to give Gnome a test spin, but my current environment is
> > KDE. What I am completely clueless about (in this instance, anyway) is
> > how to tell X to use Gnome instead, and where to tell it at?
> >
> 
> I don't know how it works in the distribution you are using.  I'm using
> SuSE 6.2 and all I did was install Gnome (and the stuff that it needs)
> and Enlightement (and the stuff that it needs).  Then from the console
> prompt type "startx gnome-session" (lose the quotes) and if all goes
> well, voila!   If you are using the k login manager, as root from the
> control panel choose applications ->login manager.  Then choose the last
> tab and at the bottom there is a place where you can add "gnome-session"
> to the list.  Log out and when you got to log in again, gnome-session
> should be there for you to chose from.
> 
> After Gnome is up, you can and choose the wm you want.  If you didn't
> install enlightenment you can choose a differnt window manager. I think
> it defaults to enlightenment, but I have brought Gnome up without
> Enlightenment so I know you can -- it's a littls strange, but works well
> enough for choosing a wm.  You can even use kwm, but Gnome does more
> with Enlightenment.  I also made sure that I chose the Enlightenment
> "clean" theme.  I think the default is "shinymetal" or something like
> that and that one is confusing with Gnome on top of it.  I'm sure you
> can fix that up and use other themes later, but "clean" is easier to
> start with.
> 
> I play with lots of wm's but I still like the kde-kwm combo the best so
> far.  Gnome is pretty cool though and if you've got multiple users it is
> very nice to give them their preference by making several available.
> 
> Gail
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