Hi, Here is the way I do it. Create a file in your home dir named '.xinitrc'. Enter this line in the file: gnome-session Save the file, exit X if you have it up, and type 'startx'. When you feel like switching back to KDE, your '~/.xinitrc' might look something like this: # gnome-session startkde HTH, -- Isaac Sparrow www.concentric.net/~issparow/ * Kyle Faber (kyle@emr.net) wrote: > > 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. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Linux > > Lover > > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:58 PM > > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > 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" 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. > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > 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 :) > > > > > -- > > > BoBB > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss