[techtalk] along the lines of "can I change my mind?"

[Stephanie Alarcon]

> It's to use the command 'switchdesk' either at the command line 
> (apparently, although I didn't know that) or from within X. It gives
> you a choice from the available options of X "environments" (GNOME, 
> KDE, and on RH there's AnotherStep or some such name), and when you 
> pick one, it sorts all the changes to make out for you and does it.

yeah, this is the easiest way. what telsa is talking about is a pulldown
menu that will show up on your login box after X comes up.  It will let
you choose from whatever window managers you installed, and it will
remember which one you like, and default to that the next time you log
in.  If kde is the default, and you chose gnome last time you logged in,
when you get that log in box it will say kde in there until you type your
username and go tot he password field. then it will switch to gnome. =)

also a question about that xdm thing...the person who mentioned the xdm
line in inittab, i thought you were full of soup when I read that, because
I could have sworn on all red hat/mandrake installs i've done (over the
past year or so) the way you started X automatically was to put "startX"
in a good place somewhere in /etc/rc.d/whatever. i thought that's what the
install program did, too.  but lo and behold, it ain't so and the xdm
thing is in fact in /etc/inittab.  was i dreaming, or is this different?

I really have to read more...