Good day; I just installed Stable-Potato, and then installed packages including XFree86, and the C++ -written minimalist Window manager (sorry, I forgot the name. It advertises a *nonwindoze* look and feel, and has a bar across the bottom.
Somehow, XDM also got installed. Which lends two problems. (1) I need to change the monitor specs. It won't let me do that, because I am already in X, even as root. I tried renaming /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XDM as XEM, then restarting (it got me out for the time being), and then redoing the setup.... but when I came back I found that the 1024x768 SVGA I had installed didn't operate, and now all I had was VGA. I had read the SVGA characteristics straight off my Win98 system, so I'm pretty sure they are right. (2) I don't want X to be automatic. I *like* text. How do I deconfigure XDM? I can see that it is running; I tried going to /etc/inittab and looking for the code that starts up X, but I didn't find any such code there. I'm pretty much a newbie -- this is only my 4th or 5th time installing Linux, and I've never before had it for very long, and each time I forget most of the specifics, though not the generalities. So you'll have to be pretty specific in your answer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
