Nuke my Gentoo, Fedora for Ubuntu?

[Joshua Lee]

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:01:13 -0500, Romeo Theriault
<romeotheriault at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>  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.

No need to do that, just use "startx" to start X. Use
"update-alternatives --config x-window-manager" to change the default
window manager from a menu to be used by startx. (or edit .xinitrc in
your home directory.)