Nuke my Gentoo, Fedora for Ubuntu?

Simon Burke simon.burke at gmail.com
Sun Dec 5 10:34:37 UTC 2004


On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 02:40:25 -0500, Joshua Lee <joshua613 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.)
 
 

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There is also an app called xtart wich you used instead of startx and
it allowed you to chhose which wm, i used to use it a lot before i
started to play with linux properly

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Theres no place like ::1

Thanks,
SimonB




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