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From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing the Window Manager
> The dumb question is the one you DON'T ask.
>
> AFAIK, the easiest way to do this is edit /etc/inittab
>
> On or about line 18, you'll run into
>
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> change the 3 to a 5 and save it.
>
> Now when you startup a screen will appear that allows you to boot into any
> windows manager you've installed. Going to a console can be done by
> raising an xterm or by ctrl-alt-fx where x is 2-6, with ctrl-alt-f7 going
> back to the windows manager.
>
> Civileme
>
>
> Steve Spiller wrote:
>
> > This may seem like a dumb question, but I have only run Linux-Mandrake
> > for 1 week. When I run startx, it automatically boots into KDE. This is
> > fine, but I would like to test the other Window Managers that I
> > installed. How do I use startx to boot into WindowMaker (for example)?
>
> --
> visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url ....
> Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS?
> Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me
>
>
If you like booting to console, this is a good question. This was addressed
months ago in this list, but I don't remember the answer. I would also like
to know, just in case. So if anyone has the info, it would be nice.
Manny Styles
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