Okay, I'm kinda annoyed.

Jeff Kinz jkinz at kinz.org
Thu Jan 5 09:28:00 EST 2006


On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:15:56AM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> I loaded up Kubuntu on a notebook -- wanted to see how it differed from 
> Ubuntu.  However, I wanted to be sure that I had the Gnome utils I know 
> and love, so I loaded a bunch of them up, too.
> 
> Now it boots into Gnome.
> 
> How do I change it back?  It's been a long time since I've played with 
> KDE, and I have no idea what its WM, etc., are called these days... and 
> I've -never- used it under Debian, so I have no clue what link(s?) need 
> to be changed (presumably in /etc/alternatives?).

look for the switchdesk command.
If thats not there look for the "session" label/button on the Gnome
login screen.
If thats not there, su to root, go into /etc/X!! and poke around, I
think Xinit may be the script that start up the DM.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Ken
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