Subject: Re: how to turn off desktop environments?
From: David C. Hacker, DVM (dh55145@alltel.net)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 23:35:35 MDT
You can enter the graphical login screen and choose failsafe mode and then
when the terminal comes up type afterstep or whatever window manager you
want. Or you can even type the run command for the name of the program you
want and it will run from there. Even if it is a KDE or Gnome app. Hope
this helps.
on 6/6/01 9:40 PM, Scott Frankel at leknarf@pacbell.net 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.
>
> 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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