What should I write to get, say, gnome?
I have tried "startx gnome" and I got kde4, again.
I'm far from a gnome/general window manager/X expert, I can normally hammer whatever I have into something that I can work with/on. I don't really know what you mean by wanting 'gnome' it seems like there's much more to it than just the window manager. googling 'gnome window manager' gives a reasonable overview page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacity I think your simplest course of action might be to change your default runlevel to 5 (can't think of the tools that would do that right now, I'd edit /etc/inittab and change the line like id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault: ) then make sure kdm is set to off (chkconfig kdm off) and turn on gdm (chkconfig gdm on) and see if that gets you closer to what you're looking for and the normal caveat that you should back up any files before you make changes and write down what you do in case it doesn't come out so pretty and want breadcrumbs to get back. -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org