Re: btw: gnome desktop manager

2007-04-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Andrew Sackville-West: > or b) you could install other dm's alongside gdm. try xdm or > wdm. There is a way to specify which one is the default dm to use, > though that escapes me at the moment and I don't have one installed to > figure it out with. look in the /etc/init.d/*dm file of choice and yo

Re: btw: gnome desktop manager

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:49:29PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > > > >You can easily remove gdm: apt-get remove --purge gdm. > > > >The function of a Desktop Manager is to log in graphically and start the > >appropriate x session. If you don't like gdm, then perhaps xdm is more > >to your liki

Re: btw: gnome desktop manager

2007-04-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:08:05AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Although most recently He has told me to use Debian Sid in a multi-seat > configuration, necessitating them again, gdm specifically, very > successfully BTW: > uname -a: > Linux debian 2.6.21-sd046 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 28 04:

Re: btw: gnome desktop manager

2007-04-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/28/07 07:49, somethin2cool wrote: You can easily remove gdm: apt-get remove --purge gdm. The function of a Desktop Manager is to log in graphically and start the appropriate x session. If you don't like gdm, then perhaps

Re: btw: gnome desktop manager

2007-04-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/28/07 07:49, somethin2cool wrote: > >> >> You can easily remove gdm: apt-get remove --purge gdm. >> >> The function of a Desktop Manager is to log in graphically and >> start the appropriate x session. If you don't like gdm, then >> perhaps

Re: btw: gnome desktop manager

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
You can easily remove gdm: apt-get remove --purge gdm. The function of a Desktop Manager is to log in graphically and start the appropriate x session. If you don't like gdm, then perhaps xdm is more to your liking, or you can just get rid of all desktop managers and boot to a standard login

Re: btw: gnome desktop manager

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: > > this starts up as the last thing when I boot up. But why? I don't have > Gnome, and haven't had it at all on this installation. XFCE has its own > which I would like to use (it doesn't seem to do anything anyway) > instead as

btw: gnome desktop manager

2007-04-28 Thread somethin2cool
this starts up as the last thing when I boot up. But why? I don't have Gnome, and haven't had it at all on this installation. XFCE has its own which I would like to use (it doesn't seem to do anything anyway) instead as this is what my sys prefs refers to (and i'm trying to keep everything XF