[mythtv-users] Replacing KDE with Ratpoison
Phill Edwards
phill_edwards at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 8 11:53:19 UTC 2004
I've been trying to replace KDE with Ratpoison, but KDE seems to have an
extremely strong will to live and no matter what I do I can't get any other
window manager to start up. Here's what I've done.
I'm on FC2 and have downloaded ratpoison-1.3.0-1.rhfc2.nr.i386.rpm and
installed it. I use gdm on bootup. There's a file called RatPoison in
/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/ which looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession ratpoison
In my home directory I have a file called .xsession which looks like this
(should it be .xsession or .Xsession - I've tried both?):
#!/bin/sh
exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession ratpoison
I also have a file called .Xclients which is exactly the same as the
xsession file.
I have modified /etc/sysconfig/desktop to look like this:
###DESKTOP="KDE"
DESKTOP=""
None of this seems to have made a blind bit of difference. When I boot into
Windows I get the gdm screen and select Ratpoison from the Alt-S sessions
menu, but even then it _still_ fires up KDE.
I noticed that someone in gossamer-threads once said that all was involved
was installing the Ratpoison rpm and making a one line change to a config
file. Mmmmm.... perhaps he wasn't running FC2!
Does anyone know what I have to do to get KDE to just butt out?
TIA,
Phill
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