In /etc/inittab change id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault:
startx KDE, startx Gnome, startx XFce, etc
A better way is to use Xtart. To install it:
urpmi Xtart
Then don't use startx at all. Just type Xtart and it will present you with a
short text menu of available WindowManagers.
On Saturday 12 October 2002 07:44 am, Bill Witherspoon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to stop using kdm, and have my machine boot
> to a shell prompt. How do I stop using a window manager login?
>
> Also, if I do want to start a window manager from the shell,
> I know it's startx. But how do I change the wm that gets
> started? startx gnome? startx xfce?
>
> TIA,
> Bill.
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