You can make Gnome the default X mandager by setting it as such with
Switchdesk. Once you're logged in and X is running it's on the menu
somewhere, but I've always called it from a terminal. Just type in
Switchesk, and then choose Gnome from the menu and tell it to apply the
change. that's all there is to it.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> Dennis Myers wrote:
> >
> > When it boots to the login box that wants either the user + password or
> > root + password there is a button that has kde on it
> > click on that button and all of the installed choices including gnome
> > will drop down. Click gnome and pull up a
> > mushroom. Oh, then click "go" sorry my strange sense of humor got in
> > the way back there.
>
> <grin>
>
> Okay, first of all I didn't make my message clear enough. My brother and I both
> know how to change from a *graphical* login. Neither one of us do that though.
> We both boot up to the time-honored command line/prompt. So...how or what do
> you change from there to switch? Thanks!
>
> PS...or is it still easier to run DrakConf and set it to a graphical login,
> pick Gnome as default, then run DrakConf again, and tell it NOT to start X
> automagically? ;-)
>
> PSS I'd still like to know the other way, for curiosities sake... ;-)
>
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