Subject: Re: how to turn off desktop environments?
From: Scott Frankel (leknarf@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 20:40:21 MDT
Yep, switching the default runlevel then letting .xinitrc do the rest works!
But ... it's kind'a clunky. It'd be real nice if there were a way to enter the
graphical login screen on bootup, without having to go through a Desktop
Environment.
My hesitation with removing the gnome & kde rpms is that I'd like to use
programs that are, at least nominally, associated with these environments;
i.e.: either gnome-pim or Korganizer.
Do you s'pose I'd still be able to use one of those programs even if the
"parent" environment is no longer present?
Thanks for the suggestions!
Scott
"Paul J. Lucas" wrote:
> 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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