On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:28:53 +0700, ody quraviharto wrote: > hi all, > using KDM or GDM would suck about 90% of my memory resources, because am > using celeron cpu with 128 RAM, so that I tried to change into XDM. I've > changed the /etc/sysconfig/desktop to "XDM", and I also have installed > icewm. But still after booting, fedora goes to KDM.. please any suggestion ? > > thx. > hi all,<br> > using KDM or GDM would suck about 90% of my memory resources, because > am using celeron cpu with 128 RAM, so that I tried to change into > XDM. I've changed the /etc/sysconfig/desktop to "XDM", and I also have > installed icewm. But still after booting, fedora goes to KDM.. please > any suggestion ?<br> > <br> > thx.<br> Since you're short on memory, you may want first of all to boot in console mode (level 3) rather than directly into X (level 5), because there's a number of things that you can do that don't require X. To this end, edit the line id:5:initdefault: by changing the 5 to 3 in /etc/inittab. Then, instead of what you did, create a file called .xinitrc (note the dot!) in your home directory, containing the following line: exec /path/to/window_manager where you replace the obvious with the actual path to your preferred window manager. And by the way, icewm is smaller than gnome and kde, but I'm not sure it's the smallest. Look into the *box managers, like blackbox, fluxbox, and the like.
