|-----Original Message----- |From: Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:12 AM |To: Jose M. Sanchez |Cc: 'Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] Changin window manager! | | |On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | |Thanks! I'll try it! | |But ONE of the reasons I'm enjoying mdk is the 'flexibility' |of switching from window manager to text! I know that from |Linux, but from my last experience with other distro's it does |NOT work fully, you can go but, not come back! --- Huh? What do you mean by this? You can always flip into and out of X, unless something is wrong with your system or setup. I've never had any trouble thru many distros. --- | |I was blaming my ex-distro when I discovered the 'guilt' ;-) |it was the bastille firewall, which used tty6 and 7 for |logging purposes and doing that... I could not 'flip' from one |to the other [text to windows manager]. | This is a minor configuration error as Bastille can be re-assigned. |But now I removed my old distro, bastille and I'm enjoying mdk8.1! | |I didn't like 'gdm' very much because it lock us on the |'graphics' ... there is no option to console or text! | Huh again? You can flip out to text any time you want. You can even configure GDM and KDM to enable graphical options to shut down the Window Managers altogether without bringing the machine down. This is available in the Gnome and KDE control Panels. -JMS
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