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suicideducky Apprentice
Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 208
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:22 am Post subject: new WM and possible removing gnome. |
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ok well i was just wanting to try out fluxbox because ive tried out
kde (too bloated),
gnome (currently on),
xfce (didnt like ),
fluxbox (for like 1 hour then gave up )
openbox (didnt get past the install)
im also thinking of switching my WM in gnome to enlightenment or openbox.
once i make the switch how easy is it to remove them?
and which would you all recommend?
but my question is how do you remove gnome so that when i start up i get the console again, i guess that would also mean removing <inset gnome login manager name here>
thanks again, Ducky
[EDIT] i think that means id also have to remove ./xinitrc or whatever it is called, but i plan to try out fluxbox very shortly after i uninstall gnome (hopefully entirely) [EDIT] |
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leonglass Apprentice
Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 278
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:34 am Post subject: |
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Definitely agree on KDE I just didn't like it either. But I found Gnome not much better. I used Fluxbox for a long time and really liked it. Curently using XFCE with Beryl which is worth a look. To remove it to boot to a console you can remove it from the run level (not sure how someone else will give you the command.) You could always Ctrl->Alt->BckSpce to shut it down but I have found that often that just puts me back to the log in screen. |
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zietbukuel l33t
Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 607
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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To remove the login manager from any runlevel:
To star/stop/restart, you have to first do Ctrl+Alt+F1:
Code: | /etc/init.d/xdm start
/etc/init.d/xdm stop
/etc/init.d/xdm restart
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suicideducky Apprentice
Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 208
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:01 am Post subject: |
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ok well ive managed to remove gnome, and install fluxbox, and i know its working because i manages to get into it last night via startx. and now ive reinstalled gdm
ive removed the gnome entry from /etc/X11/Sessions i think it ws plus the gnome.desktop entry from some other place. but gdm still tries to load gnome, and breaks while trying (coz gnome now doesnt exist)
and zietbukuel, isnt that the symbol of a true hacker? i have some document laying around here with it on.
so how can i get gdm to boot into flux?
thanks again. Ducky |
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suicideducky Apprentice
Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 208
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:03 am Post subject: |
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ok i jsut went into options, selected choose sessions, selected fluxbox, logged in, and it prompted to set as default.
done! thanks all, ducky.
p.s. is there any pages on flux configuration in gentoo?
ive got the docu from gentoo.org and the howto flux from gentoo-wiki.org
thanks. |
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swimmer Veteran
Joined: 15 Jul 2002 Posts: 1330 Location: Netherlands
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