Incoming from Aaron Seigo: > On April 20, 2004 16:58, s. keeling wrote: > > Sure. Regain control of your box. "dpkg -r [xkg]dm ; exec > > /usr/bin/fluxbox" > > hehe.. cute, if tongue-in-cheek. but how, exactly, does having a display > manager remove control of your box from you? and why isn't /usr/bin in your > $PATH? ;-)
You have apparently not seen all the posts from people who installed only to find gnome when they wanted kde (or vice versa) and wanted to find out how to get the other one. Let me tell ya, it ain't easy if you're relying on [xkg]dm and the generally shipped defaults. All the [xkg]dm's do things a little differently, don't bother to recognize how the others do it, and consequently end up tripping over each other or clobbering each other. Add in KDE and Nautilus and you have a mess. My advice: rip it out. Choose a window manager you can control. Leave the libs on board in case you want to run one of their apps, but avoid like the plague their desktops, icons, helpers, toolbars, dockapps, & etc. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
