Nuke my Gentoo, Fedora for Ubuntu?

[Nathan Howell]

* Romeo Theriault <romeotheriault at fastmail.fm> [2004-12-04 12:53]:
> I use a few different windowmangers, fvwm, fluxbox. I get to them by
> removing 'gdm'   (gdm is the graphical logon manager). Without gdm
> you'll just boot to the terminal. From there I type
> 'xinit /usr/bin/fluxbox'   or xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session' to start
> gnome, etc, etc... This is how I do it anyway.

Take a look at the files in /usr/share/xsessions. You can add files
there (and a few other locations) for other WMs (if they don't install
their own) and gdm will list them as login options. Much easier.

Nathan