Hi Tom, My best guess is that gnome is being loaded from your ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession files. Perhaps setting up X to load a different config file depending on the disk you currently have booted. Accoring to the xinit manpage, the environment variable $XINITRC tells xinit where to look for config; perhaps you could set that differently, depending on which disk you happen to be running, and xinit will look there instead of the default .xinitrc hth, -Mike Alborn http://odoitau.dyn.dhs.org malborn@odoitau.dyn.dhs.org On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:26:25PM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > Can anybody tell me exactly when and how a particular desktop (Gnome or > KDE) is started on a Debian system? After a `startx` all kinds of scripts > and programs get run using all kind of config files and I loose track > where Gnome comes in. > > The situation is, that now both KDE and Gnome start. To my surprise the > system still works, but now I got 2 toolbars, a full .xsession-errors, > and a sluggish system. > > I have been using KDE. The current situation came about when I installed > Debian on another disk, but still used my old /home/ partition on the old > disk; the new install has Gnome instead of KDE. > Now if I boot my old system and startx as a mortal, I get KDE as I used > to, AND the Gnome desktop. > Yes, Gnome has largely been installed on the old system too; too much > stuff depends on it to remove it altogether. > Now the new install is NOT anywhere accessible from the old system; so all > changes must be in my homedir. I removed anything with Gnome there, but > after a startx Gnome happily comes up and puts another .gnome/ in my > homedir. > Help? > > -- > #>!$!%(@^%#%*(&(#@#*$^@^$##*#@&(%)@**$!(&!^(#((#&%!)%*@)(&$($$%(@#)&*!^$)^@*^@) > > Tom "thriving on chaos" Peters > NL-1062 KD nr 149 tel. +31-204080204 > Amsterdam e-mail tpeters@xs4all.nl > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Nothing succeeds like success. -- Alexandre Dumas
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