Debian-newbie questions

[Merv Curley]

On October 4, 2003 02:36 pm, waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:

>   2) My 433 and 450 mhz machines are underpowered for GNOME/KDE.  What
> I've done with Redhat was to install GNOME+KDE, but switch to FVWM for a
> window manager.  It runs the GNOME+KDE *APPLICATIONS* just fine, without
> the overhead of a GNOME/KDE *DESKTOP*.  I've got two questions here...
>   a) I've somehow ended up logging into X on bootup.  KDE base *DEMANDS*
> gdm, so my question is how do I turn off gdm without removing it
> altogether.  I've tried using update-rc.d, but I've gotten nowhere.  I
> suppose I could manually remove /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm or rename it to K99gdm.
> But will that foul up anything else ?

I don't think KDE demands GDM,  maybe Debian.
I run Libranet-Debian  and I have removed gdm and replaced it with kdm.  
There is is one or the other.  If apt-get (Synaptic) installs kdm it 
removes gdm and adjusts all the scripts.  I think it is Debian, not 
Libranet specific.  

>   b) I've installed FVWM.  I can't find switchdesk, which does the
> config setup to switch from GNOME to KDE or FVWM or whatever.  How do I
> do this in Debian.
>
From the kdm or gdm login managers.  Should have been that way in Red Hat 

Have fun

Merv

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