replace KDE with Window Maker?

[Kazem]

I want to uninstall KDE and replace it with Window Maker. Also, I remember my friend had his machine set up in such a way that he could type "WINDOWMANAGER=" and write whatever window manager that he wanted to load.

I am using Suse 7.1. How do I uninstall KDE? Also, I want to install Window Maker, but I can't install the libPropList library since it says that "configure" is an unknown command.

What do I do?

Thanks.

-Kazem

[bdg1983]

Did you prefix configure with './' as in ./configure ? ./ says to search the current directory.

The reason is that linux does not search your current working directory as dos does/did. It only searches what is defined in the $PATH variable.

[PaleoKing]

As far as uninstalling KDE, you probably don't have to, you can just leave it there but not use it. If you create a file called .Xclients in your home directory, XFree86 will look there first to see what you want to launch with X-Windows. I recently stopped using Gnome and KDE in favor of BlackBox, and all I had to do was create .Xclients, put just the word "blackbox" in there. KDE is still around, and I occasionally use it, but it doesn't load with "startx" under my main user profile, which is nice, because it was killing the slow machine it was on. You can also add other stuff to .Xclients like xscreensaver (see the man page for some cool options with it), or launchers, etc. Anyway, I would imagine you can do the same with WindowMaker, just use "windowmaker" or whatever command launches it, once you get it installed successfully. On a final note, I think the use of the .Xclients file is new in XFree86 4.x, as I don't rememeber seeing it in 3.x, but maybe someone can clarify that for me - hopefully it's not just a feature of my distro (RH 7.1), or else all of the above is kind of moot, but again, maybe someone more knowedgeable can chime in here...

Hope that helps.