Re: get rid of landlord
You start gnome by writing gnome-session.
Does it reduce performance, having *dm running? As far as I understand, an
unused program is stored on swap space but not in RAM and should therefore
not reduce performance?
/Gudjon
> Sorry, it was quite simple to stop gmd and gnome by
> renaming /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm /etc/rc2.d/K01gdm
> whereby it boots into nongraphical $
>
> after that, the script
> /home/francesco/.Xsession
>
> #!/bin/sh
> xrdb -load $HOME/.Xresources
> exec xterm
>
> leads into twm. From here it is easy to modify .Xsession to launch a light
> window manager like jwm.
>
> A QUESTION: how to launch gnome from the terminal window above? In case of
> installed kde the command is:
>
> $startkde
>
> Cheers
> francesco
>
>
> Reinstalled amd64 Debian etch to have ext3 filesystem throughout.
>
> Netinstall with daily build 20 July, mirror ftp.uni-koeln.de, install
> --Desktop environment
> --Standard system
>
> whereby I got gnome and I have not yet found a way to get rid of it (or,
> preferably, set it aside, to use it for e-mail should my i386 machine go
> down).
>
> I have written in my home a .Xsession file
>
> #!/bin/sh
> xrdb -load $HOME/.Xresources
> exec xterm
>
> however, instead of getting the expected
> $
> from where to launch, if wanted,
> $startx
> and then, if wanted,
> $startkde
>
> (as I am used to do on the i386 machine, while on previous installation of
> amd64 I neither had kde nor gnome, but only jwm)
>
> I get the yellow flower of gnome, from which user/pass leads to term
> window in
> X system and from which I am unable to get rid of the X system.
>
> I tried to configure
>
> #update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
> but the answer is that there is only /usr/bin/metacity
> (which is not true, because there is also /usr/bin/xterm).
>
> Well, this gnome has taken possession of my machine. I know Windows
> little,
> but it seems something like that.
>
> I came to amd64 for calculations, how to get pure
> $
> without graphics? gnome not only takes memory but it might interfere with
> the
> calculations.
>
> Thanks for help
>
> francesco pietra
>
>
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