On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 12:53:29PM -0700, Robin Rowe wrote: > Hi. I want to install KDE and Gnome, but still boot in console mode and be > able to use my non-desktop startx. I don't want to have an automatic > graphical startup (XDM, etc.). I'm thinking that what I want is to create a > startk and startg that work like startx.
Just don't install xdm, gdm, kdm, whatever. > This configuration is so I can test software with and without KDE and Gnome. > Normally, I just run startx and Blackbox. I've never used KDE or Gnome, and > am concerned those installations may try to take over my system (which may > be what typical users would expect). Those environments had damn well better not take over the system. That would most certainly be against Debian policy (assuming, of course, that you're installing the Debian packages for them). > > How do I install and set up KDE and Gnome to run optionally? Just install them. In your .xinitrc add the command to start whichever envinronment you want to run. I.e. 'echo gnome-session > ~/.xinitrc' will make gnome your session. Replace 'gnome-session' with 'kde2' for KDE. Deleting your .xinitrc will cause startx to revert to the system default, which I assume in this case is Blackbox. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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