 | | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Steven Vore
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| | | "Mike Stanley" wrote... (...) Mike, I went through this very excersize a week or three ago, and found that I was trying to make it much more difficult than it needed to be. After using rpm (I'm using a Red Hat 6.1 installation here) to install all (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) The package is called 'switchdesk'. You can also change the system-wide default by doing this (as root): echo KDE > /etc/sysconfig/desktop or echo GNOME > /etc/sysconfig/desktop (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) Hmmmm, crap. That isn't working. Either one. I installed switchdesk and I select KDE but no matter what I always get Gnome and Enlightenment. I also tried doing the above as root - same thing. :( Oh well, I'll keep trying. Gotta get sshd (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Ok. Screw that and edit your ~/.xsession file. (You may not have one yet...) It should say something like: exec startkde Or, if you're using ssh-agent (which is pretty cool): exec ssh-agent startkde (...) I highly recommend OpenSSH: (URL). (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Dan Boger
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| | | | (...) yah, that's what I did - fvwm is way cooler than E or KDE, but that's another debate :) (...) is there any other difference between OpenSSH and the "regular" ssh? other than one being GNUed? :) Dan (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) I'm partial to Window Maker, myself. (...) Well, it's got a few fixes, and I think eventually it will be better. But in this case, the license is really important -- regular SSH is only available for noncommercial use freely -- if you use it (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) debate==good. :) Let's say I wanted to ditch Gnome and try out fvwm -- but with the option to switch back to Gnome if it didn't work out -- what would I type? My biggest beef with Gnome is that it has *terrible* keyboard support. I'm forced to (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | (...) well, there's two issues here. First, you can use gnome WITH fvwm - since gnome is not a window manager. Fvwm 2.2.x (the current stable version) has support for gnome, it's not complete yet - most things will work just fine though. The next (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6 —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) Pssh. Details are good. (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Redhat 6.1 up and running, Vmware 2.0 installed —Mike Stanley
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| | | | Well, RH 6.1 is running, knows I have two celerons, etc, etc. Vmware 2.0 is installed. So far I have Win2k Pro installed, planning on putting Win2k Server and both NT4 Workstation and Server on as well. Need some more ram and it looks like I missed (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Redhat 6.1 up and running, Vmware 2.0 installed —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) I have to agree with that!. In my experience, it's been quite stable, and its rendering engine is excellent, but it's got The Most Heinous Memory Leak (even up through the most recent release from two weeks ago) and its font support and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Redhat 6.1 up and running, Vmware 2.0 installed —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Just Wait For Mozilla. No, really, I mean it. I've been using the nightly builds for a while now, and it's getting really good. (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Redhat 6.1 up and running, Vmware 2.0 installed —Dan Boger
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| | | | (...) I've been thinking about trying some other browser (sorry netscape, cronning killall netscape every night is getting annoying). Are the snapshots good enough for reasonable use? :) Dan (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Redhat 6.1 up and running, Vmware 2.0 installed —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) They've finally hooked up drag&drop for bookmarks -- that was the main blocker for me. But it still doesn't have SSL, so you need to keep something around for that for now at least. (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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