I don't think I installed either (is that possible). I gotta be honest I don't know what KDE/Gnome do and what the window manager do. Restated:
Whats the diff between KDE - Gnome What's the diff between KDE/Gnome and fvmw/wmaker/sawfish... Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Roper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:22 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] X login screen > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:30:58PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > 1) how do I make it so I get the console login screen (for some reason I > > > thought I change the run > > > level (but that didn't work)). > > > > apt-get remove xdm > > > > or /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /etc/rc2.d/s99xdm > > If you have KDE or Gnome installed, you may need to get rid of kdm/gdm > instead. > > rm /etc/rc2.d/S99?dm > or > chmod -x /etc/rc2.d/S99?dm > > should do the trick. > > By the way, changing the runlevel in /etc/inittab only applies to > RedHat-based distributions since they use inittab tell init to > automatically respawn [x/k/g]dm while running in a certain runlevel. > Debian takes a different approach and uses the SysV init files in > /etc/rc#.d to start the login manager a single time. If the login > manager dies under Debian, it won't automatically be respawned like it > does in RH-based distros. > > > Matt > > > > > > > 2) What did I select during the installation that configured it so that I'd > > > get an X login screen > > > > you selected X. i think xdm gets started be default. > > > > -- > > PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > > PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > -- > > ********************************** > * Matt Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * > * http://www.mattrope.com * > ********************************** > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
