Just enacted your guys' advice and it works! Great! Put an icon in my taskbar
dealie for "switchdesk" which works fine.
-Brandon
Brandon Dorman wrote:
> yeah. thanks. I remember now - switchdesk. I was mostly just gonna try to be
> fancy... look where it gets me. I was just about to go try those suggestions...
> I'll let you know what happens. I'm hoping deleting that, "desktop" file does
> the trip. And running fsck. Before this, I had also tried to create a seperate
> home partition by making one in "/home" Then I could just move all my user files
> over there and save room on the root partition. Must've been going about that
> the wrong way too but I was too chicken to ask this list because it's a newbie
> thing. I can get help after I fix this screwup. Thanks. The reason gdm wasn't
> the default is because my RH 6.0 cd got scratched after severl failed, completed
> (then my computer crashed and I lost all), retrying installations. So I
> installed it without GNOME and got GNOME from the net. (only the GNOME parts
> were scratched or something) Being in CA it would've taken a long time for the
> replacement cd's to get to me.
>
> Bret Hughes wrote:
>
> > definetly is accessed with the options button on the GDM login panel. There
> > is a choice for each window manager installed and seems to work too. I have
> > Gnome and AnotherStep or what ever it is called and can use it to start which
> > ever one I want. Pretty neat actually.
> >
> > Bret
> >
> > Bret Hughes wrote:
> >
> > > I belive that the option to switch desktops is under the options button on
> > > the login panel. I am not booted in Linux right now but will check later.
> > >
> > > Bret
> > >
> > > Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 12:34:11PM -0800, Brandon Dorman wrote:
> > > > > Minor problem. Following the instructions found in "Red Hat Linux 6
> > > > > Unleashed," I tried to change my login manager to gdm.
> > > >
> > > > Is this not the default? Thought it was...
> > > >
> > > > > I created a file, "desktop" under /etc/sysconfig with only the
> > > > > word, "GNOME" in it. This was under root. When I was in my user
> > > > > account, and typed root, I couldn't save under sysconfig or
> > > > > anything. Perhaps that was my error.
> > > >
> > > > I am not following this. ??? If you couldn't save the file, you likely
> > > > were not root (assuming I am half way understanding the situation).
> > > >
> > > > > When I rebooted, hoping to see gdm instead of xdm, it stopped a bit
> > > > > after mounting the root filesystem. "Press Control-D for normal
> > > > > startup or root password for maintenance."
> > > >
> > > > This sounds like a completely unrelated problem. Sounds like
> > > > filesystem corruption was detected. Read the screen very carefully and
> > > > see if this is what is going on. Maybe. If so, you need to run 'fsck
> > > > <dev_id>'.
> > > >
> > > > > Once I pressed Control D and it did a controlled restart, or I got
> > > > > into root but I don't know the shell command for delete. (to try
> > > > > and delete the desktop file) Can someone tell me how to get out of
> > > > > this using the commandline stuff and then to have gdm start?
> > > >
> > > > rm <file_name>
> > > >
> > > > su to root, then:
> > > >
> > > > echo GNOME > /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> > > >
> > > > then
> > > >
> > > > init 5
> > > >
> > > > > ( I know not everyone likes it, but I'd like to have to ability to
> > > > > try out all the different window managers - kde, gnome, afterlevel,
> > > > > at will) Thank you.
> > > >
> > > > I haven't used it, but I believe you have a 'switchdesk' command that
> > > > should do this for you. Possibly in one of the menus somewhere.
> > > >
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