On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:26:01 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > If you use /etc/rc.conf to set your desktop (the Gentoo way) then > > booting to a console and running startx will give you twm. > > alternatively, you could emerge another window manager, such as > > Fluxbox.
> I guess I do. /etc/rc.conf contains > DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" > XSESSION="kde-3.2.1" > (but it brings up KDE 3.5). What is "booting to a console"? I used to > know > about runlevels until Gentoo made hash of the old way of doing things. > Now I can boot "single" and that's as much as I know. I use a separate runlevel, text, that has the same as default apart from X and a couple of others. Then I have a GRUB menu entry with "softlevel=text" Alternatively, you could remove xdm from the default runlevel while messing with this, or emerge fluxbox and choose that when logging in instead of KDE. Or you could switch to a VC and stop /etc/init.d/xdm before proceeding. > > I'd like to > > > practice this before I destroy my system. > > > > I love your optimism :) > You'd rather I practiced after it's too late? Not at all. I would advocate practicing before *risking* destroying your system, it was your certainly about the destruction that caught my eye :) > I've been around too > long to think optimism is a good strategy in the face of system > problems. Besides, some of your .signature choices aren't exactly > polyanna stuff. :o) I particularly like the one about bugs and > entropy. Hoisted by my own petard :) -- Neil Bothwick It's only a hobby ... only a hobby ... only a
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