[lug] dumb X question

Dhruva Reddy bdhruva at gmx.net
Tue Apr 1 16:03:02 MST 2003


Not sure about desktop environments, but when I was running IceWM, I had a
file called ".xinitrc" in my home directory with the following line:

exec icewm

I currently run KDE, but it was all set up automagically, since I also run
kdm.

-d

> Hello,
>  Im embaressed to say that i cant spell, and that i cant
> figure out how to set my default desktop enviroment on
> a Debian box.  I have been using gnome and I apt-get'ed
> KDE. Debian must like KDE because as soon as it was installed
> it became the default that "startx" invokes. So now i got
> to do xinit and then gnome-session. How can i fix it so startx 
> starts Gnome.
> 
> -- 
> jd
> jd at taproot.bz
> 
> Bad spellers of the world untie!
> 
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> if I have never worked a single day of my life"
> 			Miguel de Icaza
> 
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