From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Wed 01 Sep 1999 - 16:13:55 IST
John McDonnell spoke thusly:
>Evening,
>I want to get rid of Gnome and just use either enlightenment or
>windowmaker but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this. I
>had a look around the red hat website and all I could find were articles
>saying "yes, Gnome is great, isn't it? This is how you can install it"
>or "... is why Gnome is so wonderful. You'll be glad you've installed
>it".
>any ideas?
don't use a gui login.
make a file called $HOME/.xinitrc containing these three lines:
#!/bin/sh
xterm &
enlightenment
type startx
man pages on xinit may come in handy here. enlightnement probably
doesn't have docs, but if it does you might want to read them too.
it probably has nifty startup options. redhat's busy trying to help
newbies. if you want to do non-newbie things they're not the place to
go. in fact most distrib's aren't the place to go for that. you'll
notice neither microsoft or apple put up info on how to switch their
gui environments around. most linux distribs offer relatively easy
choice between gui's which is nice (yet limited as you've seen).
this is a good spot to ask though.
kevin
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