problem with mandrake 7.2

[lewindha]

I'm a newbie, I have Mandrake 7.1 installed at school. I am very happy with it and impressed with it's hardware detection. It found my usb zip drive during installation and put a link to it on the kde desktop. I put 7.2 on my computer at home and I like kde2 very much, but I can't find a way to switch to gnome. Am I missing something in the menus. I'm new and don't know how to do the switch from the command line. Can someone help me out, please? Also 7.2 did not detect my zip drive. Just thought I'd throw that disappointment in.

[D-Termind]

Originally posted by lewindha:
I'm a newbie, I have Mandrake 7.1 installed at school. I am very happy with it and impressed with it's hardware detection. It found my usb zip drive during installation and put a link to it on the kde desktop. I put 7.2 on my computer at home and I like kde2 very much, but I can't find a way to switch to gnome. Am I missing something in the menus. I'm new and don't know how to do the switch from the command line. Can someone help me out, please? Also 7.2 did not detect my zip drive. Just thought I'd throw that disappointment in.

I have the option of which windowing program to use when I login.

You didn't have it log in 1 person automaically did you?

If you did...I don't know then.




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[Shad]

If you have it login automatically, you can reset that by going into DrakConf and selecting X setup (I think that is it, at least that is what it does, just don't choose the change X resolution as that is just not a complete version)

Go through selecting all the correct info, and at the end it will ask if you want to login a user automatically. Select cancel. Now you will have to login everytime, but you will get your choice of Window Managers.

The other way is to edit your ~/.xinit file to indicate the Window Manager of choice.

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[vivalavida]

I have it set to the automatic login for one user, but I can change from KDE to Gnome (and other WMs) by logging out, then I get the choice to really shutdown or log back in. On that login screen, there is a dropdown menu (in the lower left corner of the dialogue box) to choose KDE, Gnome, or different window managers. It defaults to KDE, but I've been using Gnome more.

[lewindha]

Thanks everybody. I've got it figured out now. I just set it to start X on boot up and I can change from there. Thanks for your help.