Re: KDE, GNOME, too intrusive for me !! Any alternatives ?

[Jon Dowland <jon-dowland@ncl.ac.uk>]

Bob Alexander wrote:

> I tried removing (metacity ?) the default WM and try FVWM but when I 
> logged in (maybe through kdm or gdm) and indicated my session would be 
> FVWM, I would ONLY get a nice wallpaper in the root window and the 
> right-click menu IIRC to exit FVWM.

Yeah, you need to log into GNOME then tell GNOME to use a different WM. 
Choosing a different WM at the display manager stage doesn't start 
GNOME. Not too intuitive, I know :) I think the required incantations 
for GNOME is gconf magic.