Re: just use window manager?
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:22:24PM +0800, George Hang wrote:
> is it possible to only use a window manager (e.g. enlightenment)?
Yes! And thank God!
In your .xsession, put in something like
afterstep
to run whatever WM you want. I've noticed this seems to work far better
with xdm than with kdm or gdm.
> or it must go with something else (like gnome) because i can't seem
> to find that option in the login prompt... i'm installed several
> window manager, such as enlightenment, window maker, etc. but it only
> shows up in the gnome wm selector...
Try using xdm instead?
> i've tried changing the display manager (thinking that it might work),
> but it seemed that i am stuck with gdm and can't go to kdm, wdm, or xdm
> (i've tried to change the default-display-manager file by commenting
> out the gdm path and add in the xdm path in /usr/bin/X11/xdm (if i recall
> correctly) but it didn't seem to work, so i changed it back by commenting
> out the newly added stuff and restore the old path but that didn't work
> either, couldn't even go back to gdm... so i deleted the new added
> stuff and restore the old line of /usr/bin/gdm and i could start gdm on
> boot again...)
dpkg --purge gdm && apt-get install xdm
What do you get?
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Baloo
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