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I finally installed Slackware (love it) and I choose KDE as my default desktop enviroment. But, if I want to work in/check out Gnome, or other enviroments, how do I start them. I tried typing 'gnome' and 'gnome-help' but I didn't get anywhere.
you can use vi or mcedit (mcedit being the more user friendly of the two, if you have never used vi)(or if your in a gui gedit, kedit, whatever text editor you want) to create it, just make sure it in your home directory and name .xinitrc.
you may only have one "active" entry in it (put a # in front of the others) like this:
the # in scripts/files (this is for the bash shell, some others will use different syntax) means a comment, everything after the # on a line will be ignored.
other ways to create the file are:
touch ~/.xinitrc (this will create an empty file called .xinitrc in your home directory)
when you boot up and log in, type xwmconfig and you'll get a list of the windows managers...click on the one you wanna use, then type startx and it will start for you...
Neat site, I'll do some looking around. It looks just like KDE-Look.org. Is there a reason for this? I thought that KDE-Look was run by KDE as an official site, but if they are the same, is it a third-party?
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