Red Hat 7.3 includes a great little program called "switchdesk", also 
available in K -> System -> Desktop Switching Tool if you have a default, 
full installation.  Run it, tell it what WM you would like next time and then 
reboot your X Server.

As for Debian, couldn't tell you if they have switchdesk (My deb CDs are in 
the mail as we speak ;) 

Kyle Faber
EMR Internet.com


On Wednesday 21 August 2002 02:16 pm, Mark Berkwitt wrote:
> Good question! Perhaps when someone answers it they can include the
> solution for Debian Woody as well.
>
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> Subject: Re: How do I boot into text mode, without X?
>
>
> On a similar vein:
> When one installs Red Hat 7.3, it asks which desktop manager one wants
> to use, KDE or Gnome. I selected KDE, but now want to switch it to Gnome
> so that when I type "startx" Gnome comes up. Right now I'm logging in as
> root and going to gdm to be able to get the choice.
> How do I change this at the startx level?
> Thanks!
> Mark
>
> On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 13:17, BoBB wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:57:31 -0700
> >
> > "Mark Berkwitt" <mberkwitt@cox.net> wrote:
> > > I'm searching through the index of my copy of "Running LINUX" 3rd Ed.
>
> and
>
> > > can't find how to boot: into level 3 (I think that's right) thus
>
> avoiding X.
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> > Depends on your distro, most of the "big" distro's stick to having run
>
> level 5 as the graphic login runlevel. what you would want to do at the
> lilo prompt is type 'linux 3'(or whatever the label is for your kernel) to
> boot to runlevel 3. If you want to boot into run level 3 by default edit
> /etc/inittab look for a like like this
>
> > id:5:initdefault:
> >
> > and change 5 to 3. Im not to sure on the facts but i heard you shouldn't
>
> change anything else in this file unless you know exactly what your doing.
> maybee someone more experienced can put in thier $.02 :)
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