i looked around a bit and had trouble understanding the syntax for startx commands

basicly i changed my login from graphical to a text one by editing /etc/initrc and replacing the 5 with a 3.

so now i login with text mode and things look pretty spiffy but when i issue startx im booting right into gnome. i was wondering if i should just change my default manager to fluxbox (oh and how would i do that too) or maybe startx has a command that will let me choose my window manager. like startx -fluxbox (which doesnt work) or something like that.


thanks in advance yall!

Simply put a .xinitrc in your /home directory.

!#bin/bash

exec gkrellm &


#startkde
gnome-session
#fluxbox

This is mine using Gnome and starting gkrellm.

/etc/X11/xinit/* is a script that runs at strartup , its pretty strait forward, in a default file its some stuff at the top, then at the bottom is a bunch of comands like
xterm &
xclock &
filemanager &
windowmanager


you get the drift

thanks Allen614

that worked great. i also was planning on asking how to start gkrellm up with x too. looks like you killed 2 birds with one stone.

Help please with FluxBox - can't run it. Seems I've done all that is said in native docs (I choose to start it automatically with display manager):

* installed fluxbox without errors: ./configure, make, make install.
* add to ~/.xsession
exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox
* mkdir ~/.fluxbox

then I restart computer, but look & fell stayd the same (gnome) :-(

OS: Red Hat 9
Fluxbox: latest I found at its site

You need to let GNOME now that Fluxbox is there
(presuming you're still using graphical log in...)
I've used fluxbox with RH9 before and this is how it worked.

Install as you have done.
Locate and cd to the directory called /etc/X11/gdm/Session
use your favourite editor (vi,emacs,etc...) to create a file named "Fluxbox" containing the single line:

exec fluxbox

save the file and make is executable
( chmod +x Fluxbox )

now when you reboot you'll get the GNOME log in screen, click on Session and there should be the option of Fluxbox, select this and away you go.

Niteskye
thanx a lot for your instruction! it works