Re: [Sheflug] Changing distro woes

[Lesley Anne Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote :

> Lesley
> 
> > Despite having stopped the gdm from being loaded in the relevant
> > rcn.d dir ..... and setting the default-display manager to kdm ....
> > I get gnome  Every time.
> 
> Don't know about network manager and some of the other stuff but for 
> kdm I do.. 'apt-get install kdm koffice kde' and when kdm installs 
> your are asked which window manager you want to use.  That should 
> sort it out.  Took me two months to work that out on my own with 
> Sarge.
Yep ... I tried apt-get install kde
followed by apt-get install kdm 
and I chose kdm as my default 
I even did dpkg-reconfigure kdm
...
Gnome every time
But I will surprise it by trying dpkg-reconfigure gdm shortly.
  
> Also, try 'apt-cache search network' and read your way 
> through the stuff that falls down the screen.  Something in there 
> might help you ?
> 
http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ <-- hollow laugh 

;)

Regards

L.





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