Re: Starting X without a Gnome session

["Sridhar M.A." <mas@uomphysics.net>]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:35:03PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
   >     "Balazs" == Balazs Javor <jb3@freemail.hu> writes:
   > 
   >     Balazs> Hi, I'm trying to figure out the proper Debian way of
   >     Balazs> chosing between different types of X sessions.
   > 
   > The easiest way is to use the session chooser at the gdm login
   > screen. Use the Session menu on the top right side of the window. You
   > can choose a bunch different sessions, and it's really nice when
   > switching between Gnome, KDE and straight xsessions.
   > 
If one uses startx, then I would suggest selectwm. It does what the
session manager does in kdm and gdm does. One can set a default
window-manager very easily with predfined timeout.

Regards,

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Sridhar M.A.

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