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Debian windowmanager/display manager question

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Faust:
[shameless_plug]Yep it's great.  Nice *BIG* reference tome, very chunky reading.  Not what I would recomend for a newbie learning Linux for the first time but having that many how-tos in printed form beside your case is fantastic.  And it's only $20 US! [/shameless_plug]

Pantso:
Yep. Especially the chapters about networking are certainly not for a newbie. Hell, even I got a headache when reading them.   :D   All in all though, it's a great book and is worth the buy.

Faust:
On the same subject, all new Australian linux users should invest in a copy of the Australian Personal Computing Magazines linux pocketbook and advanced linux pocketbook.  They're only $15 ish AUS each (about $7 US) and they are great for bringing a newbie up to speed quickly.  They even have linux cds on the covers.     (last I checked the linux pocketbook had red hat and the advanced linux pocketbook had debian.)

Calum:
you are right there, i was thumbing through my copy of the first linux minibook yesterday (i think they are up to version 3 now?) and it is a very good beginning reference. the last one i saw was offering rh8 and mdk9 (the one i got had rh7.0 and turbolinux 6.1).

as for the issue with kdm, i have done this on my computer, it was easy, i am sure it is in the init script or somewhere, give me a day or so (i am not at home) and i will find the exact file that decides which display manager is used (unless somebody else posts first).

Copperhead:
If you want to change default display managers, you can use the command update-rc.d defaults. See man update-rc.d


#Example (removing gdm and installing kdm as default display manager)

$ update-rc.d -n gdm remove

$ update-rc.d -n kdm defaults 99 01

Those two commands will show you what is to be done. If you are content with how they ran, rerun the commands without the -n option.

You must do these as ROOT.

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