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Subject: Re: Add WM's to switchdesk? From: Jay Turner <jturner@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:02:21 -0400 (EDT) You should have an entry in Switchdesk for "AnotherLevel" This is what you are looking for. A little background will probably help on this subject. GNOME, KDE and AnotherLevel are all desktop managers. You run one of these and then run a window manager on top of them. In the case of KDE, they are one in the same (i.e. KDE is both the desktop manager as well as the window manager!) For GNOME, you can choose to run WindowMaker or Enlightenment as the window manager for example. Well, the desktop manager that runs AfterStep and non-GNOME WindowMaker is called AnotherLevel, so you would want to use Switchdesk to switch to using AnotherLevel as the desktop manager, and then choose the window manager that you wish to use (AfterStep, WindowMaker, fvwm2, etc.) === Subject: Re: Window mangers without GNOME? From: Rick Forrester <rickf@crow.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:18:37 -0700 mikek@deltanet.com said: > I want to run KDE, and only KDE. Switchdesk seems to start some KDE > components (like the "Autostart" and "Templates" folders on the > desktop) but the Gnome stuff is still there. Gnome icons even sit > on-top of the KDE icons on the desktop. > I'd like to be able to completely switch WM's and run ONLY KDE, > WindowMaker or Enlightenment, without Gnome. Possible? How? Erasing all the gnome RPMS should do it. > Also - I'm a convert to RH6.0 from Slackware 3.2. I'm getting a ton > of errors in the console while X is running that I didn't have with > Slackware 3.2. From memory - they speak of random "Critical" failures > in GTK and "Bad Windows". Is this normal? These are gnome errors; my understanding is that updating gnome from the gnome web site will get rid of them. Wouldn't know; I'm mostly running XFce here. ===