On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, bob jones wrote: > Hi gurus, and thanks in advance. > > I upgraded to RHL 6.2 from RHL 5.1. The upgrade decided on the packages > of course, on a machine I will call the 'HQ'. On another machine, I did > an install of RHL 6.2 over an older version (4.2). Call this machine the > 'Dell'. > > Both the upgrade and the install put "gnome" on the systems. The HQ > became a problem because of gnome but the Dell didn't. The X window > manager on the HQ wants to use gnome and does so if I don't have the > exactly the right 'dot-files' in place, for example .Xclients, > .wm_style, .Xdefaults, .xinitrc, .fvwmrc, and .fvwm2rc. I can't figure > out what the logic in this is, and I can't seem to configure the > fvwm/fvwm2 window managers to take over the task on the HQ. On the Dell > I don't have this problem, but my Dell 'dot-files' do not work on the > HQ. I can't figure out where the HQ window managers are getting their > configuration information. It does not seem to be inside the user > directories (.xinitrc, .Xclients, .Xdefaults, .fvwmrc, .fvwm2rc are all > there for each user, and identical, but X comes up differently in each > case). > > I don't want to use a "desktop", and I don't want to use gnome. I can't > get gnome off the system with rpm -e because of a multitude of > dependencies and the long list of gnome-related rpm's. That leads to > question #1; > > 1. How does one uninstall a long list of related rpm's such as those of > the gnome set? I tried and failed. > It is not easy. You end up having to remove several RPMs on the same command line. I have not found a good way to do it. (I hate using --force!) > > And a related question: > > 2. How does one remove a directory tree with one command? I tried the > man pages for rm and rmdir and and failed ...? > Midnight Commander (mc) is handy for this. You can use rm with the -Rf options, but if you make a typo, you can wipe everything if you are doing this as root. > > And question #3 is: > > 3. Where, outside of .xinitrc, .fvwmrc, .fvwm2rc, .Xclients, .Xdefaults, > .bashrc, .bash_profile, and .wm_style in the user directory, does the > window manager configuration get defined/controlled? How does 'gnome" > sneak in? > Take a look at /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and Xclients. This is where the system defaults are handled. /etc/sysconfig/desktop is read by the Xclients script. > I hope I haven't muddied things here so badly that nobody can understand > the problem. > > Thanks again, > > bob jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
