[mythtv-users] best window manger/desktop environment

[Steven Adeff]

On 3/6/07, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am trying fluxbox now but so I installed it with YUM  but how do i switch
> > to it and make it the default?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mitchell
>
> This is not fluxbox specific (I used this method to make ratpoison my
> default).  Assuming you use GDM and have the window manager you want
> to use installed correctly, at the login screen of gdm, just select
> which window manager you want to use, and choose to make that the
> default.  If you have already set it up so that gdm auto logs in
> without the screen, you need to temporarily turn that off to get to
> the login screen (and then of course, turn back on the auto login
> functionality).  I did that via the gdm.conf file, but you can use gui
> tools as well.

I run dedicated myth logins with no window manager on two systems
without problems.

-- 
Steve
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