Re: Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-15 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
An interesting (I thought) way of getting rid *temporarily* of KDE for experiments (don't know if it works if you have Gnome installed) is to do a "console login" and then type xinit Then you get a completely bare-bones X without any form of decoration, with just an xterm in the top-left corne

Re: Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks for the advice - eventually I just apt-get removed everything with "kde" in the name, as well as gnome-control-center and that took care of it. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Soc

Re: Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 06:24:12PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > For some reason on the laptop I just installed debian on, I ended up with > kde and gnome as the default desktops. I want my fvwm back! How do I rid > myself of these? Install debfoster and run it? I do this once a week after I've i

Re: Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andrew" == Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> For some reason on the laptop I just installed debian on, Andrew> I ended up with kde and gnome as the default desktops. I Andrew> want my fvwm back! How do I rid myself of these? Tell the login manager to use an xsessi

Re: Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-12 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For some reason on the laptop I just installed debian on, I ended up with > kde and gnome as the default desktops. I want my fvwm back! How do I rid > myself of these? > > Thanks. What I did to completelyy get rid of GNOME was to 'apt-get remove' one o

Re: Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 06:24:12PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > For some reason on the laptop I just installed debian on, I ended up with > kde and gnome as the default desktops. I want my fvwm back! How do I rid > myself of these? not sure as there are massive dependancy issues... i did an inter

Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
For some reason on the laptop I just installed debian on, I ended up with kde and gnome as the default desktops. I want my fvwm back! How do I rid myself of these? Thanks. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistan