Subject: Re: how to change default window manager??
To: None <ravi2box0@lycos.com>
From: Taro Fukunaga <tarozax404@earthlink.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/03/2002 13:39:17
I'm having my own problems with gdm, but

Ravi Shankar wrote:

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>i ran xf86config and configured x successfully....twm is the default window manager...how to change it to KDE or GNOME????
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In your home directory, create a file called .xinitrc. I should contain 
this line:

gnome-session

You should install the gnome meta-package before you do this, or at 
least the gnome-core, I believe.

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>and i also noticed that the graphical login comes by default..how to make text mode login come up after startup...any boot params to be passed....
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>i.e i want run level 3 after startup...
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Check /etc/rc.local. Make sure it isn't starting xdm. If it isn't, dunno...

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>any comments will be appreciated...
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>ravi
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Taro