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Gentoo...anyone...?

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Lifer
gentoo is really nice, but I still have a few quirks to deal with.


1. The desktop is fine and all, but I am really anoyed by the green 'dealies' ..basically the window orders.


Upon booting the pc, I always get the command prompt, have to type "startx" and then I am in x but with about 2-3 bash windows

After typing "startkde" I get KDE up an running but in sort of a "windowed" enviroment.

If I minimize the "window," however the hell I end up accomplishing that (the windows are screwy to say the least), I no longer have my desktop backround, just the standard one, and have no desktop icons.


Is there a way to have it run as would Redhat and mandrake and even SUSE, where KDE is IT, and where I could get a windows manager menu?




2. I "emerge" 'd GNOME and I can't seem to get it running ...apearantly the command is NOT " startgnome" so what exactly is it?



Thanks

 
1. What does your ~/.xinitrc look like? Why not have it start KDE for you?
2. Check the gnome documentation, Im sure they have that answered
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Link to the Gentoo Desktop Guide

Below is the relevant info that you need..... For Gnome you will need to set the DisplayManager to kdm and then the last line is that Desktop (I think) manager and you will need to unremark that (it is set for Gnome) then run the rc-update command and you should be set.


All that's left is to make sure that X comes up when Gentoo boots. Edit /etc/rc.conf so that DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm".

Code listing 2.11

# nano -w /etc/rc.conf

Code listing 2.12: /etc/rc.conf -- setting DISPLAYMANAGER

# What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm | kdm ]

DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm

Now we just need to make sure that the xdm start-up script is read when booting.

Code listing 2.13

# rc-update add xdm default

Reboot, and see if X comes up!

Important: The rc-update command is Gentoo Linux's improved version of the venerable chkconfig command for managing init scripts. Type rc-update by itself for a list of options.
 
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