Re: Changing desktops
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 17:39, Kent West wrote:
> >How 'bout ice? IS it any good?
>
> Depends on what you mean by "any good". It's usually what I use. Fairly
> lightweight, but with the bells and whistles I like (taskbar, that
> autohides).
>
> >The installation notes at the ice web site
> >are above my level of comprehension. (Am barely X literate.) Is there an
> >easy way to get it running?
>
> "apt-get install icewm"
> "/etc/init.d/kdm restart"
>
> should do it. Then just select "icewm" from the pull-down menu on the
> kdm login screen. It might be that you'll have to create/edit ~/.xinitrc
> and add "icewm" and then choose "default" or "Debian" from the
> pull-down; I just don't remember.
had kdm in when I did the apt-get above; icewm was in the kdm selections;
icewm worked; I still had this stuff from kde running when I did a "ps axj"
from an xterm in icewm
1 311 311 311 ? -1 S 1000 0:00 kdeinit: Running...
1 314 311 311 ? -1 S 1000 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --n
1 317 311 311 ? -1 S 1000 0:00 kdeinit: klauncher
1 320 311 311 ? -1 S 1000 0:00 kdeinit: kded
Maybe it's just kdm stuff.
Your advice got me going in the right direction. Now I have to learn Mutt so
I can ditch KMail.
One thing I couldn't figure though...icewm did not show up with gdm, and xdm
only launches KDE. I did a man xdm and was blown away by TMI. I might need
a good X windows text to get a good handle on all this stuff.
--
Mike Mueller
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