Sandbox Video Productions wrote:IF i install both gnome & kde. how do i choose which one i want to start up. It seem that it only starts the GUI that was installed last.
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Depends.
1. Are you using KDM? If so, you make your choice at the login menu. 2. If not above, edit .xinitrc and comment out one IE:
exec startkde #gnome-session #exec startxfce4 #exec startfluxbox
In the above example, KDE starts after entering startx
#exec startkde gnome-session #exec startxfce4 #exec startfluxbox
In the above example, Gnome starts ater entering startx
Even easier, if you want to avoid editing ~/.xinitrc everytime you want to change between the two, you could add a case statement in ~/.xinitrc to handle args to startx(1):
case "$1" in
-k) exec startkde
;;
-g) gnome-session
;;
*) exec startkde
;;
esacThe '*' case being the default if there are no args.
For this to work you have to hack /usr/X11R6/bin/startx and change the line
defaultclient=/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
to
defaultclient=""
because if you specify any (client) args then startx(1) just starts X and an xterm - no window manager.
The last time I used multiple WMs was in XFree86 3.x and I'm certain I didn't have to hack startx so it looks like the behaviour has changed, or it maybe that it was just so long ago that I've forgotten :-)
See startx(1) and xinit(1) for details of the default startup behaviour.
HTH
Regards,
Mark
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