I only just installed my first Slackware (9.0), so bear with me My question is, what do I need to do to get KDE going when starting my session with startx? Currently, it defaults to Gnome, I think because I installed Dropline Gnome. This is fine, I don't want to change the default - I just want to have a way of getting into KDE now and then. I believe I'd need to make an entry in my ~/.xinitrc - is that correct, and what would that entry be?
I would prefer not to resort to going through gdm (or kdm) either - I'm happy with startx.

Type "xwmconfig", select the one you want, exit, then startx. You will need to switch this back to gnome when you wish to use it again.

I'm sure there's a text file you can edit somewhere, but I don't know which one

greg

The text file (shell script) to edit is

/etc/rc.d/rc.4

Thanks, xwmconfig is helpful. After a bit of digging, I found the script that gets KDE going: it's /opt/kde/bin/startkde.

Putting "exec /opt/kde/bin/startkde" in my ~/.xinitrc starts KDE.
Putting "exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox" starts Fluxbox instead.
Having nothing in .xinitrc defaults to Gnome.

Excellent. What I would like to do now is collect this into some sort of script, so I could go "startx kde" and get kde, "startx fluxbox" to get fluxbox, etc. In short, I'd like some functionality of GDM without actually starting GDM...