[TAG] 2-cent tip: Experimenting with window managers

[Ben Okopnik]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:08:15AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:47:07PM -0400, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> > 1) Make sure your system does not start X automatically. The easy way to
> > do this is by setting the default runlevel in "/etc/inittab" to a
> > "console-only" level - this is level 2 for most distros.
> 
> Note that while that characterization of runlevel 2 is correct, it's
> somewhat incomplete: the functional equivalent, in most distros, to
> runlevel 5 with X is runlevel 3, without, but *with* all the other
> network stuff which would usually be running.
> 
> As you know.  :-)

Oh yeah - I did know that. I've been Debianized[1] for too long, I guess.
:) It's not a concern, given that it's all being replaced by the Xnest
method.


[1] Not that I've been converted to a package - that would be a LARGE
download - but as a parallel to the following slang expression from down
south. The plantain is so much a staple of the Dominican diet that it's
central to the national identity; when someone moves to the DR and even
becomes a citizen, they're not considered locals quite as yet. However,
after a few years of absorbing the local culture and getting adapted to
the island ways, they become so - and are considered "platanizado"
("plantainized") from then on.


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