[plug] Windows

[Bevan Broun]

on Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:39:16AM +0800, Rob Hall <rob at hcm.iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> After not bothering about a desktop for a period of some months, and instead
> putting up with my Win$hit system, I downloaded KDE from iinet's mirror and
> a few updated libraries. It took me a while to get it up and running
> properly (I had a late night), but when I finally did I was most impressed.

I dont want to start any window manager wars but I dont like KDE. I love
WindowMaker (www.windowmaker.org) which will work with KDE (and Gnome) .
If I were to go down the KDE path I would certainly use Gnome instead.
 
> One quick question.  I tried xdm.  Everything went fine until I tried to
> shut down the window manager.  Every time I went to shut down it just kept
> coming back asking for my password.  I gave up in the end and just shut down
> the PC and went to bed.   Can someone tell me how to shut it down?  Also,
> what is the difference between xdm and startx?  (Please excuse my ignorance)

in /etc/inittab you have the default run level set. You can set it to
reboot and have hours of fun or you can set it to 3 (multi user, no x)
and then use startx to, well, start X. You can set the default run level
to 5 (multi users, X) and then xdm is run. If you do that you can kill X
using "init 3" (as root) to change to run level 3.

If you have X going you can use ctrl-alt-F(1-6) for non-x terminals and
from there you can use ctrl-alt-del to reboot your machine.

BB
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