kdm & gdm problems (?)

[JoeHill]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 16:07:37 -0400
William O'Higgins disseminated the following:

> >Helooo icewm.
> 
> Yes, exactly.  Or openbox, fluxbox, pekwm etc...

Pekwm!
 
> >What am I doing wrong ?
> >thanks,
> 
> Look around for a program called switchdesk, which allows you to point
> and click your way to a new desktop environment.  This is just a
> front-end for modifying files such as ~/.xsession-default and
> ~/.xinitrc.  Take a look at those files and see what they say.  I don't
> know off-hand what the gnome start command is,

...in your ~/.xinitrc:

exec gnome-session

> but you can find that out.  KDE is, I think, startkde.  Try these and similar
> from a prompt and see what you get.

Just 'kde' will do it. Not that I'm advising the use of KDE in any way
whatsoever!

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