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Re: Debian 2.0



Hi,

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:

> then I decided "ok, NOW I can put xdm on", it was an option during
> installation, but I didn't risk it since at the time X was not configured
> yet. I naiively thought that it was just a matter of switching to runlevel
> 5 and proceded to look into /etc/inittab (using vi, pico/pine are not
> bundled in debian!) and saw that not only xdm was not waiting at runlevel
> 5, the entire system was default-ly set to runlevel 2 at boot time, unlike
> any other machine I have seen so far... runlevel 3 seemed to be an exact
> replica of runlevel 2, so why the odd number? immittating SunOS's two
> runlevels on a SysV system?!

Perhaps level 3 is like 2 + xdm ? like on SuSE

> finally, now that X starts and the various WMs automatically register the
> installed apps in their menues (not ALL the apps, but the highest number
> of them I've seen for a distro), but.. but.. but... why can't I choose to
> switch to Afterstep? :-) I'll have edit my .xinitrc for that I guess...

SuSE has a nice windows manager configuration tool (susewm). Perhaps you
can install it on your system :-)

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