Marco Fioretti wrote: > Hello, > > here at work I've been finally given a PC with Linux Red Hat 7.2 > and blackbox-0.61.1-2. Distro and/or blackbox version cannot be > changed because of company policies too shameful to discuss them > here. Also, I have no root password. > > The problem: the PC has been configured with initlevel 5, and GNOME. > > How can I use blackbox as my wm? If I put /usr/bin/blackbox in .xsession > and the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable, GNOME croaks because I > am not using a GNOME compliant WM, and I'm left with an unusable desktop > > Keep in mind that I don't need GNOME at all, I just got it with the PC, > and, again, requests to change the "default" install, i.e. to mess with > gdm or such, are going to be ignored, for the more or less right reason > that other people may use this PC, and they would get lost without icons > and such. Any clues? > > TIA, > Marco Fioretti
What happens if you try to kill X with CTL+ALT+BKSP or similar methods ? My first course of action would be to bring down X and then (as was suggested before) start it up again using "startx", and put blackbox into .xinitrc