Linux literate people...In here please???

[MasterMind]

Okay guys, I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my computer, and I'm a newbie to Linux. I use it at school, but the ones at school are mostly all command based. Right now, my linux system boots up into KDE but I want it to boot up into Gnome instead, how do I change it so that it boots into Gnome as default? I seem to like Gnome better than KDE. I just need linux to do most of my homework so I decided to install it.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[sdtPikachu]

Urk, it's been a while since I last touched mandrake, here's what I can remember off the yop of my head (and yeah, I agree that having the default MDK desktop as KDE sucks for us Gnome fans).

First of all, I first used the graphical login, which allowed me to choose what GDE I wanted (ie Gnome) - I'm assuming 9.0 doesn't have this.

Right, IIRC go into Mandrake Control Centre in X, and there should be a config panel in there called Boot or X86 config or something. Somewhere in there should be an option to turn off graphical login, and have a text based login (seems to me like you've already enabled this anyway), so that on login you'll just get the command prompt and have to type "startx" to launch your GDE.

If the problem is that X starts up but either KDE starts or neither KDE nor GNOME start, then look for a file called .xinitrc or (possibly) .Xclients in your home directory. Edit it with a text editor. You want to remove everything from it and end up with just this in it: exec gnome-session. Save this file, and then retry startx.

Or you can use vi or whatever to uncomment whichever desktop you choose to run.

You could also type "start" and then tab through all your various options, this works in RedHat, dunno about MDK.

[Cyrax9]

PIka expct a RedHat Linux 8.0 Questions Influx this spring, I'm gettig the Professional Version and building a comp, and I'm going ot need help to get the darn thing working, I know WINE is good word WIndoze progvrams but I still need to find DOS Emulators and whatnot, I'm dual-botting it with Windows ME while I learn Linux, and for games that are going to be stuborn about running in OPenSource, but other than that Linux is the primary OS of the machine I'm building, the reason:

The devil in Readmond refuses tot ake back his Copy of Windows ME adn it's n worth the effort to destory the CD that's non-refundable. L:inux is a superiour OS without a shoadow of a doubt and I still need 'doze for about two things but anything that can run in 'nix will be run in 'nix.