[97974] in RedHat Linux List
Re: getting rid of the next level
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Stearns)
Fri Nov 6 00:20:59 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 00:23:44 -0500 (EST)
From: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
cc: Vinay Bharel <vinayb@bellatlantic.net>
In-Reply-To: <005c01be085a$ec3dbb20$6787c697@homersim>
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Good day, Vinay,
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Vinay Bharel wrote:
> I want to get rid of the window managers that come standard with linux 5.0
> and install afterstep. how would i do that? i already downloaded the rpm
> and installed it but i can't figure out how to get rid of fvwm and the other
> window managers.
The individual packages can be removed this way: Find out the
name of the package. If I'm not sure, I use "rpm -qai | less" to get a
description of all of them. Once you find one you want to delete, say,
fvwm, use "rpm --erase fvwm".
To install AfterStep, go to the directory that has the AfterStep
RPM's and type "rpm -Uvh one_of_the_afterstep_rpms.i386.rpm". Do this for
each package.
To make AfterStep your default window manager:
cat >~/.wm_style
AfterStep
<Ctrl>-D<Enter>
Note that you don't strictly _have_ to remove the other window
managers to use AfterStep; you only need to tell X to use it (as you did
in the cat>~/.wm_style section). On the other hand, if you're not going
to use them, it certainly frees up some space.
To find out more about how X is being started, see the scripts and
files under /etc/X11.
Cheers,
- Bill
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