Need to switch from Window Maker back to Gnome

James Cass yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:16:06 -0400


On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 08:38  AM, Jason DeVita wrote:

>
> Here's another way:
> Since you've used switchdesk, you should have a file in your home
> directory called ".Xclients" and another called ".Xclients-default".  
> Edit
> .Xclients-default so that it reads
>
> exec gnome-session
>
> (or exec startkde, or exec ctwm, or whatever).  This file gets 
> re-written
> by switchdesk, so you can still use switchdesk to change desktops, or 
> just
> edit the file by hand.
>
> -Jason
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Daniel Koskinen wrote:
>
>>> Another simple way to do this is by editing via terminal
>>> /etc/sysconfig/desktop and change its content for something like
>>> this:
>>>
>>> DESKTOP="GNOME"
>>
>> Well, I thought so, too. That's what I tried first, but it didn't
>> work. :-)
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>> Daniel Koskinen
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Thanks for all the feedback!  It's nice to know more than one way to do 
something, especially if one of them doesn't work out.

Cheers...Cassj