Re: how to turn off desktop environments?


Subject: Re: how to turn off desktop environments?
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 00:17:48 MDT


On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Scott Frankel wrote:

> I'd like to turn off the desktop environments running under YDL 2.0, and run
> with just a window manager. How?
>
> I've tried editing the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file, removing the "KDE"
> string. But at reboot, I'd found myself loggin into the gnome dt environment
> instead!

        Switch to runlevel 3, not 5, and start only exactly what you
        want via your .xinitrc.

        Also, if you remove KDE and Gnome RPMs, then they can't
        possibly be started.

        - Paul



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