Alan Ianson wrote:
On Sat August 20 2005 03:57 pm, qee iiii wrote:
hi
i am newbie, i have installed debian on my laptop, my
desktop manager is wmaker.
but i am also installing kde soon. how do i let debian
know whether to use wmaker or kde
When you install kde you will be asked what desktop manager you want to use.
You will be given a list of whatever you have installed. I like kdm myself,
it lets me choose whatever desktop environment I want to use as well as
shutdown or reboot.
qee iiii mentioned a "desktop manager", when he really meant "window
manager".
Alan mentioned a "desktop manager", when he really meant "display manager".
Y'all are talking two different things.
The KDM display manager provides a graphical login screen, which, as
Alan mentioned, allows you to choose which window manager/environment
you want to run.
If you just start X with "startx" though, instead of using a display
manager, you can put the name of your preferred window
manager/environment into your ~/.xinitrc file.
There are other ways of handling this also, but these are probably the
most common.
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Kent
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