-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/20/08 17:02, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun January 20 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> its not that I need the space, I just don't like issues such as the >>> screensaver, where they were competing against each other.. >>> I had the KDE screensaver configured, yet gnome-screensaver was also >>> active. >> Purge gnome-screensaver? > > nope, never used purge before. > # Purge gnome-screensaver > bash: Purge: command not found > paulandcilla:/home/pbc# purge gnome-screensaver > bash: purge: command not found > paulandcilla:/home/pbc# > > ok, I tried it as you wrote it, and no caps.. > oh, wait, you want an aptitude in front.. yeah that works:)
No, actually, I don't. Long live apt-get!!! > whats the difference between aptitude remove and aptitude purge? the man page > seems to... miss explaining it. "Purge" connotes /more/ than remove. Deletes /etc config files, I think. >> You must have thought of that, so I might have missed your comment. >> >>> I'm not sure where else there might be a conflict, I just thought it >>> would be better without both GDM and KDM around. It will probably hurt >>> more to try to remove packages, than it will be to troubleshoot issues, >>> so maybe I better leave well enough alone:) >> There is no law of nature insisting that you run a display manager. >> In fact, people (including non-geeks) function quite well without it. > > I have run many window managers, I would run gnome, but I like the KDE apps > better, and my WIFE is comfortable with it, So.... you use GNOME & she uses KDE. What's the problem? Maybe [xgk]dm doesn't allow that, > and she HATES when I change > things! That which ossifies perishes. If you log in to the ooooh-scary-black console, put this at the bottom of her .bashrc file: if [ "$TERM" == "linux" ]; then startx /usr/bin/startkde exit fi > back in my windowz daze, I ran litestep.. of course, since I grew up with DOS > 3.11, dosshell and UNIX command line, a window manager is pure fluff:) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables!" unknown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHk/fkS9HxQb37XmcRArxeAKCBbqfTm+b4K9sD2F2ChouqMVLSEQCfa6gh RSFpbrzBUn+WgzF+jXWEB4M= =AvvK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]