* Xida Chen (xdchen@hotmail.com) [020815 14:02]: > whenever i type startx in the console i got KDE fired up. what controls > this behavior? i have no .xinitrc .xsession .xserver file in my home dir. > and in the system-wide configuration of these three files, i dont see any > lines which invokes KDE either (such as exec blah). what makes KDE start > up? and how do i change this? to make gnome start up by default? try the following: update-alternatives --config x-session-manager update-alternatives --config x-window-manager The defaults are invoked by /etc/X11/Xsession, which in turn makes use of the fragments in /etc/X11/Xsession.d . Therein, 50xfree86-common_determinte-startup invokes the default session manager, if defined, or else the default window manager, as configured by the commands I listed above. If you only wish to change the settings for your account, and not the system-wide default, you'll want to customize your ~/.Xsession file instead. It's worth mentioning that where I say 'customize' above, I really mean 'create', if you have not already done so in the past. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- E.W. Dijkstra
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