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Loki Harfagr
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 Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: Re: Slackware does NOT give a choice! |
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Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:23:01 +0100, Thomas Overgaard did cat :
| Quote: | Loki Harfagr wrote :
This is Stanislaw, probably the dean here ;~)
Don't think so. Stanislaw lives at the eastcoast of New South Wales and
OP posted from western Victoria.
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Yup, that annoyed me a wink, but still is valid the
remark that it's still Oz and I still don't think that TomAlan
may afford the risk of creeping out to an airport to try and
chase out 'Res'  Uh, so many "still" in my sentence, still life ;-)
What worried me more at first was the original post was almost
readable/understandable within an hour or two, that sort of
make me inclined to think that either Stanislaw had a
helpful vascular issue or he simply moved to a friend that
had another ISP (I could naturally list more hypothesis
including the apparent spanish tricks on nyms but that's
already quite a long post for such a topic  )
I'm sure Stanislaw will give us all some news, as soon as he'll
be back in XFce and have all the NSW comfort |
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Loki Harfagr
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:40 am Post subject: Re: Slackware does NOT give a choice! |
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Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:50:57 -0800, Lubiraz Alerano did cat :
| Quote: | On Nov 16, 4:22 am, Loki Harfagr <l...@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID
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Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:23:01 +0100, Thomas Overgaard did cat :
Loki Harfagr wrote :
spanish tricks on nyms
If it seems like a trick, present this 'moniker' to someone who can
understand "po polsku" for translation. It was in my memory since late
'40s.
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Sorry if it wasn't clear and seemed to be against you, I just thought that
you build your 'moniker' on Lubiąż, using like before (with "De Flatto") a
spanish sounding scheme, tricking the words to use them on disguise.
It's too bad that out of my post you only did spot that point  |
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Peter Chant
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject: Re: Slackware does NOT give a choice! |
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Lubiraz Alerano wrote:
| Quote: | a) edited rc 4 un-commenting calls to gdm AND kdm.
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? What were they doing commended out?
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Eef Hartman
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject: Re: Slackware does NOT give a choice! |
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Lubiraz Alerano <compaid@aussiebroadband.com.au> wrote:
| Quote: | Been there, done it. This IS the reason I wrote on group. After
reinstall of OS and choice of 'default?' window manager, when going
init 4 it still presents KDE on screen. The re-pointing of xinitrc has
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If you choose the "custom" session type in KDM you can select what
THAT choice does by creating a '.xsession' script in your home dir.
Newer versions of KDM do the session types IT knows about direct
(see /etc/kde/kdm/Xsession)
while the default is "startkde".
As far as I know xfce4 _is_ one of the supported session types in KDM
(unless my colleague has changed the KDM startup scripts) as I can
select it from the KDM screen and it even gets preserved in my home
dir in the .dmrc file:
[Desktop]
Session=xfce4
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Handover Phist
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:56 am Post subject: Re: Slackware does NOT give a choice! |
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Peter Chant :
| Quote: | Lubiraz Alerano wrote:
a) edited rc 4 un-commenting calls to gdm AND kdm.
? What were they doing commended out?
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There are calls to xdm, kdm, and gdm in the file. Since only one is
needed, the other two are commented out. Xdm is the default login
manager for X in Slack.
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Dan C
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:56 am Post subject: Re: Slackware does NOT give a choice! |
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:56:07 -0800, Handover Phist wrote:
| Quote: | a) edited rc 4 un-commenting calls to gdm AND kdm.
? What were they doing commended out?
There are calls to xdm, kdm, and gdm in the file. Since only one is
needed, the other two are commented out. Xdm is the default login
manager for X in Slack.
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Not true. At least in a stock installation, *NONE* of the calls to the
three are commented out. What rc.4 does is to check and see which one of
them (gdm, kdm, xdm) is executable, and then executes that one. However,
since (on a stock install) there is no gdm, and kdm and xdm are both
executable, what actually matters is the order in which they are tested in
rc.4. The default order is: gdm, kdm, xdm. Therefore, the "default"
login manager is kdm, since there is no gdm installed.
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Gordie
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:34 am Post subject: Re: Slackware does NOT give a choice! |
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On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:30:26 -0800, Lubiraz Alerano wrote:
| Quote: | To Slackers!
My current OS is ver.12.1 and works.
So when asked to install OS on box of "the one that has to be obeyed"
(from the MS-Glassware crowd), tried for short time Ubuntu, and my old
habits kicked in and Ubuntu was kicked out. So I decided to install
old-faithful Slack but the notion of booting directly to GUI looked like
a nice one. 'No problemas' a one character editing of inittab file and
the box boots directly into KDE. WWWWHHHHYYYY!!!!
I like xfce4 as my GUI.
No place can I find information how to tell the OS that when init 4 is
called to invoke X11 with window manager of choice.
Any suggestions?
TIA
Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.
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As Root, run setup and the choice of window manager you make becomes
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Lubiraz Alerano
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:37 am Post subject: Re: Slackware does NOT give a choice! |
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On Nov 18, 9:34 am, Gordie <go...@nolalu.on.ca> wrote:
| Quote: | As Root, run setup and the choice of window manager you make becomes
default.
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Been there, done it, but the same insubordinate KDE popped up.
It was the "under the hood" editing -in CLI- of init files that finely
gave proper responses.
Thanks God, we need those infrequently, but in true Slack fashion give
results.
Have fun |
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