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 - 22:20:38 MDT


On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Scott Frankel wrote:

> 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.

        I've personally never found having a graphical login
        sufficiently compelling to care. It also tends to mess up
        setting environment variables in your .profile since the shell
        you get isn't a login shell.

> Do you s'pose I'd still be able to use one of those programs even if the
> "parent" environment is no longer present?

        The RPM dependences probably prevent it.

        - Paul



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