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Re: change from fvwm95 to kde?



> I installed Debian 2.0 with fvwm95 as the window manager. I'd now like to
> use kde. I installed all the packages and am able to run kde, but it seems
> to be running on top of fvwm95.
>
> How can I change the window manager to kde?
> Where is the window manager invoked?

   Check out /etc/X11/window-managers.  Edit it so that /usr/X11R6/bin/kde is the
first one listed.

   If you also run /usr/sbin/switchdm that'll run kdm instead of xdm to start X.  The
only real advantage (that I've seen) there is that kdm puts a prettier login box on
the screen for you.

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