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Re: Avoid booting direct to X.. I want my starx back



On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:25:51PM +0000, Lee Braiden wrote:
> Don't want to nit-pick, but it seems worth clarifying, given the
> confusion this often causes...

:-) Feel free ...

> > From: Matijs van Zuijlen <Matijs.van.Zuijlen@xs4all.nl>
> > [...]
> > KDE and Gnome are no window managers. They are session managers.
> 
> No, they're not.  KDE is an integrated window manager & more -- what the
> KDE team and others refer to as a Desktop Environment (hence kDE).  Both
> projects include session managers, but are not limited to that.  GNOME
> doesn't have a window manager as such, although there are lots of window
> managers that are compatible with GNOME.  GNOME is essentially a Desktop
> Environment too, but I'm not sure they'd define the project that way.

Heh, yes, of course *sheepish grin*. I use Gnome myself, but I was just
too hasty to get to the point below:

> > You
> > need to run
> > 
> > update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
> 
> But yes, that will do what's required.

-- 
Matijs



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