switch desktops

tiredoflogins · 10-16-2004, 05:11 AM

Bydefault, my x-windows system latches me onto KDE. How do I switch to GNOME? I know that is installed on my box too.

I am using REDHAT 9

darthtux · 10-16-2004, 05:31 AM

If you boot to a graphical login screen, you may have a "Session" at the bottom. There you can choose what desktop/window manager you want to use. If you boot to command line create the file .xinitrc in your home directory and put in it
exec gnome-session

tiredoflogins · 10-18-2004, 04:54 AM

Thanks. I managed that.

nappy501 · 10-31-2004, 12:12 PM

Excellent post.

I was having one of those moment and I couldn't think how to do it, and I was just too, too embarassed to ask.

Regards

Nappy

maelstrom209 · 11-04-2004, 05:01 PM

I'm having a similar problem myself. On my system I currently have KDE and Gnome. When I startx it goes into KDE. I want to be able to swtich between desktops but would much rather do it using the graphical login instead of from terminal. I had my system stop at runlevel 3 because I needed to troubleshoot but now that everything is working pretty well, I'd like to go straight into the graphical login. Does anyone know how to do that?

darthtux · 11-05-2004, 08:15 PM

How did you stop your system at runlevel 3. There are several ways to do it, so we would need to know to help you undo it.

maelstrom209 · 11-06-2004, 01:10 PM

I used Suse 9.1. During the first disc installation, it gives you a list of its installation settings. For the runlevel it was set on 5. I changed it to 3 from that screen. So I want to know how to change it back.

darthtux · 11-12-2004, 05:29 AM

Edit the file /etc/inittab and change
id3:initdefault:
to
id:5:initdefault:

maelstrom209 · 11-12-2004, 02:40 PM

What do I use to edit? gEdit, Kwrite, that sort of thing?

J.W. · 11-12-2004, 05:37 PM

Yes, whichever text editor you prefer will do fine -- J.W.