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Changing default Window Manager

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I was wondering how to get an account i set up with gnome as default to run kde when i type startx under Mandrake 8.2. any help will be appreciated(sp?).

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When you run startx from the console it references ~/.xinitrc in your home directory. Comment out the 'exec gnome-session' line, with a '#', ie #exec gnome-session' if present and create a new line as 'exec startkde' New when you 'startx' KDE should come up.

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I did an ls -a inside of my home directory and i didn't see a .xinitrc, does it reside somewhere else in MAndrake 8.2?

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Name: Hmmm
Date: January 3, 2003 at 19:15:08 Pacific

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Just create the file then using a text editor.

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