Re: Xdm, Kdm, Gdm.. or just, none?
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:40:54PM +0100, William Leese wrote:
> After recently getting used to the Blackbox WM i decided i'd try to replace
> all my KDE apps because they seem more CPU intensive (due to extra KDE
> proceses?) than other apps.
>
> Problem is that i've installed Kdm, not because i needed it.. but just
> because i thought it was quite convinient when using more than one WM.
>
> However, it is.. after all a KDE app.. which invokes other KDE services (do
> correct me if i'm wrong, this is just what i've observed from top) and
> because it will stay active till i log off X.. i'm kinda stuck with it..
>
> So, what i want to have is just plain X with an rxvt terminal.. but if i
> uninstall or pervent Kdm from starting, i'll be dumped into KDE when i startx
> by default. So the question (yes yes, finally) is how do i avoid this
> behavior, which script, config file needs to be changed and is there anything
> else i need to know?
>
You can uninstall kdm and create .xinitrc in your home directory.
- chmod 755 .xinitrc
add a line like
- exec fvwm
or whatever window manager your using and run "startx"
hth,
kent
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