Andras Simon wrote:
What is the official way to get rid of either gnome, or just its
default WM (metacity?) (I'm not sure where one ends and the other
begins) and replace it (or just the WM) with another, lightweight WM?
Andras
Funny you should ask this as I just went thru the pain today of
replacing GDM and GNOME with XDM and fluxbox. I found that (in Fedora
8) I needed to create a /etc/sysconfig/desktop file with the following
entries:
DESKTOP="FLUXBOX"
DISPLAYMANAGER="XDM"
Then I needed to modify /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients and make it read this way:
GSESSION="$(which gnome-session 2>/dev/null)"
STARTKDE="$(which startkde 2>/dev/null)"
# New line FLUXBOX
FLUXBOX="$(which startfluxbox 2>/dev/null)"
# check to see if the user has a preferred desktop
PREFERRED=
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/desktop
if [ "$DESKTOP" = "GNOME" ]; then
PREFERRED="$GSESSION"
elif [ "$DESKTOP" = "KDE" ]; then
PREFERRED="$STARTKDE"
# Following 2 lines are new
elif [ "$DESKTOP" = "FLUXBOX" ]; then
PREFERRED="$FLUXBOX"
fi
fi
Then I also, for my user, created a ~/.xsession file that says:
exec startfluxbox &
You should be able to duplicate this with whatever you need.
Let us know how things go.
Kevin
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