On Saturday October 12 2002 3:44 pm, 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?
One way of doing it is to start drakconf(the Mandrake control utility) and go
to Boot -> Boot Config and make sure the 'No, I don't want auto login' is
ticked and the 'Launch the graphical environment when your system starts'
button is unticked.
>
> 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?
This is controlled by the hidden file, .xinitrc in your home dir. I don't
think it is normally there after a default installation, so you might have to
create it;
echo 'startgnome' > ~/.xinitrc
This will then start the gnome desktop when you run startx. It is an idea to
add other commented out desktops to possibly run (provided they are installed
of course) in this file;
echo '#startkde' >> ~/.xinitrc
echo '#startxfce' >> ~/.xinitrc
echo '#starticewm' >> ~/.xinitrc
then you can use vi or emacs easily to uncomment whichever desktop you choose
to run.
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