On Saturday 24 March 2001 15:58, you wrote:
> On Saturday 24 March 2001 17:21, you wrote:
> > Dennis Myers wrote:
> > > On Saturday 24 March 2001 12:53 pm, you wrote:
> > > > While I am dwelling the halls of mandrake talking a huge load of
> > > > utter nonsense.
> > > > There is something I would apreciate yor help on.In lm7.2 I see the
> > > > switchdesk utillity has been removed so how do I now switch to
> > > > gnome?
> > > >
> > > > From my dim past I can remember there is a way arounnd by putting a
> > > > .bashrc file in your home directory but there must be an easier
> > > > way!!
> > > >
> > > > Tnx
> > > >
> > > > Stefaans
> > >
> > > If you are in KDE or one of the other GUI desktops, you should be
> > > able to log off and when it goes to the graphical login with the
> > > different penquins and asks for the password you can change the desk
> > > top there. Just click on the KDE or ICEWM or what ever shows up below
> > > the login/password lines and it should drop down a list of all of the
> > > GUI's available to you. Take your pick. If you are doing just text
> > > boot up and are typing the line "startx" I am not sure what the line
> > > should be. Something like "startx gnome" but maybe some one else on
> > > the list knows that for sure. Choices are wonderful, onward, --
> > > Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
> >
> > I boot into text
> >
> > Stefaans
>
> try the following
> /usr/sbin/chksession -l
>
> which will return a list of available window managers
> on my system the list looks like this
> KDE Gnome WindowMaker Enlightenment BlackBox XFce AfterStep IceWM Sawfish
> Fvwm2 Fvwm1 Sapphire flwm aewm2 ion alloywm evilwm larswm lwm swm w9wm
> wm2 yawm wmx aewm amiwm pwm ratpoison mlvwm plwm qvwm twm mwm tvtwm ctwm
> fvwm95 treewm treewm heilwm default failsafe
>
> (yes I have a lot of extra stuff there, you probably will not have all of
> the above)
>
> then pick which one you want to use and
> startx Gnome
> or
> startx Sapphire (one of my favorite lighweight wm's)
> or
> startx KDE
> os startx (whatever)
Yeh, I'm a fan of Pointless and Sapphire myself. Maybe you should think
about packaging one of them for the distro? If you do, I'll work on the
menu-methods section.
I would if I had the time, but I'm already giving 14 hours every day to the
effort plus a couple more in an underground sardine can thinking about what
to work on next.
Civileme
