On 06/04/2007 01:07 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
[...] One of my main questions now is how to log in on the console, which I prefer to using *dm, and start different window managers from there. In SUSE it goes like this: startx <windowmanager> but in Debian this does not work. [...]
I have no ~/.xinitrc, and when I type "startx," the default Gnome desktop comes up.
You can type "startx /usr/bin/gnome-session" to get Gnome. If you want KDE, you can do this: "startx /usr/bin/startkde"