On Monday 01 August 2005 08:11, Kent West wrote: >Shark Wang wrote: >>all you x-window startup based on this file '.xinitrc', pls check >> out at your home directory! >> >># more ~/.xinitrc >> >>for gnome, it should be 'exec gnome-sessions' >> >>On 8/1/05, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>I still do not know howto switch from the gnome desktop to the kde >>>desktop, hints please. > >Or for KDE, 'startkde'. (Gene, the ~/.xinitrc file may or may not be >read by any GUI login manager you install. If you use 'startx' to > start X, then you definitely want to look into this file.) > Apparently I'm not using startx, the default login is graphical, and by golly, one can select the 'session' as you login. Going blind in my old age I guess. Thats serious BTW, I'm 70, a semi-retired broadcast engineer whose been chasing electrons for a living since 1950. But this is my first foray into the debian camp.
>(BTW, Shark, top-posting is generally discouraged on this list.) > >-- >Kent -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
