On Monday 14 October 2002 11:54, Robin Ballantine wrote: > 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.
To add to that: Once on the commandline type "start" (not the quotes) and hit the <tab> button for auto-completion. You'll get a list of all the options you have installed. On the commandline <tab> is my best friend :o) Good luck, Harm
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