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BlackHatRob
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:38 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] Changing window managers How-To Reply with quote

I am currently using metacity and nautilus on my new gentoo installation (default) and would like to change to enlightenment and no nautilus. How do I go about killing nautilus and metacity and replacing it with enlightenment so that when I log in to X, it starts by default.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

  1. Code:
    emerge enlightenment

  2. edit /etc/rc.conf, (a) set XSESSION="enlightenment" (Check in the /etc/X11/Sessions directory for the correct session name and case) and (b) set DISPLAYMANAGER="entrance"
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not crazy about entrance (I'll probably keep gdm) but how do I permanetly rid myself of nautilus?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BlackHatRob wrote:
Not crazy about entrance (I'll probably keep gdm) but how do I permanetly rid myself of nautilus?

Use another file manager.

Do a search of these forums, there are lots of topics with recommendations. :D
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have to even have a file manager? I would be completely happy to not have a file manager at all
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BlackHatRob wrote:
Do you have to even have a file manager? I would be completely happy to not have a file manager at all

No one says you must have one. There's always trusty /bin/bash (or zsh or csh or...) :)
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kimchi_sg wrote:
BlackHatRob wrote:
Do you have to even have a file manager? I would be completely happy to not have a file manager at all

No one says you must have one. There's always trusty /bin/bash (or zsh or csh or...) :)


That's what I wish to do, I'm just not sure how to disable nautilus.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What do you mean by "disable nautilus"?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could always
Code:
emerge -C nautilus
... That will uninstall it entirely. Is that what you're looking for?

That being said, are you sure you really want to do that? 8O
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kimchi_sg wrote:
What do you mean by "disable nautilus"?


I mean that for my regular user session, I don't want nautilus to automagically load when I log in to gnome.

and I don't want to emerge -C nautilus... I just don't want it to run :)
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BlackHatRob wrote:
kimchi_sg wrote:
What do you mean by "disable nautilus"?


I mean that for my regular user session, I don't want nautilus to automagically load when I log in to gnome.

and I don't want to emerge -C nautilus... I just don't want it to run :)

But you are changing window managers, right?

You won't be logging into gnome at all :?:
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok... here is what i am trying to accomplish...

1. I wanted to change from metacity to enlightenment [complete]
2. I want to stop nautilus from starting when I log in [incomplete]

That's all :wink:

I just need to know how to keep nautilus from starting. I don't want to run anything like nautilus either.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That sounds like it's made it into your ~/.xinitrc file, or maybe your ~/.xsession or something like that. I'd be surprised if it is, but you never know.

Hell, I'm a Fluxbox user that pops open Konqueror once in a while.
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