On 6/18/08, Kevin Martin <kevintm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. Thanks for these suggestions. But I'm looking for a cleaner way (if there is one). I've been doing this kind of slightly hackish things since gnome was introduced, and I thought I'd try to do it properly for a change. (Though finding out that this _is_ the proper way is fine, too.) Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
