Hi gurus, and thanks in advance. I upgraded to RHL 6.2 from RHL 5.1. The upgrade decided on the packages of course, on a machine I will call the 'HQ'. On another machine, I did an install of RHL 6.2 over an older version (4.2). Call this machine the 'Dell'. Both the upgrade and the install put "gnome" on the systems. The HQ became a problem because of gnome but the Dell didn't. The X window manager on the HQ wants to use gnome and does so if I don't have the exactly the right 'dot-files' in place, for example .Xclients, .wm_style, .Xdefaults, .xinitrc, .fvwmrc, and .fvwm2rc. I can't figure out what the logic in this is, and I can't seem to configure the fvwm/fvwm2 window managers to take over the task on the HQ. On the Dell I don't have this problem, but my Dell 'dot-files' do not work on the HQ. I can't figure out where the HQ window managers are getting their configuration information. It does not seem to be inside the user directories (.xinitrc, .Xclients, .Xdefaults, .fvwmrc, .fvwm2rc are all there for each user, and identical, but X comes up differently in each case). I don't want to use a "desktop", and I don't want to use gnome. I can't get gnome off the system with rpm -e because of a multitude of dependencies and the long list of gnome-related rpm's. That leads to question #1; 1. How does one uninstall a long list of related rpm's such as those of the gnome set? I tried and failed. And a related question: 2. How does one remove a directory tree with one command? I tried the man pages for rm and rmdir and and failed ...? And question #3 is: 3. Where, outside of .xinitrc, .fvwmrc, .fvwm2rc, .Xclients, .Xdefaults, .bashrc, .bash_profile, and .wm_style in the user directory, does the window manager configuration get defined/controlled? How does 'gnome" sneak in? I hope I haven't muddied things here so badly that nobody can understand the problem. Thanks again, bob jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
