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MaggieL · 02-13-2002, 12:01 AM

I started off letting Red Hat configure Gnome, then went to the Gnome panel and picked Enlightenment on Programs/Settings/Desktop/Window Manager....this seems to work fine. By default RedHat will configure Gnome with Sawfish as your window manager. I don't know how well E will run with KDE only; personally I run Gnome with E with KDE compatibility turned on in both Gnome and E. All the KDE apps work just fine, and the Gnome stuff does too.

For your insmod, one script that runs at every startup is /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.local. There's a more Redhattish place to put it: a Red Hat "Control Panel" that has a kernel module configuration in it, but rc.local will work fine.

It is possible to learn Linux without running it full-time, but it does take longer. I ran it as just a firewall for ages, but eventually took the plunge, while still running a lot of Windows at work, of course. My lifepartner set up her machine as dual-boot, but once she did and got the basic services running, she never went back...especially since she had her old C: drive mounted so she could pick up stuff she'd left behind. Even some of her Windows ham radio programs actually run OK under WINE, which was helpful while she located Linux equvalents.

02-13-2002, 12:01 AM	#23
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	I started off letting Red Hat configure Gnome, then went to the Gnome panel and picked Enlightenment on Programs/Settings/Desktop/Window Manager....this seems to work fine. By default RedHat will configure Gnome with Sawfish as your window manager. I don't know how well E will run with KDE only; personally I run Gnome with E with KDE compatibility turned on in both Gnome and E. All the KDE apps work just fine, and the Gnome stuff does too. For your insmod, one script that runs at every startup is /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.local. There's a more Redhattish place to put it: a Red Hat "Control Panel" that has a kernel module configuration in it, but rc.local will work fine. It is possible to learn Linux without running it full-time, but it does take longer. I ran it as just a firewall for ages, but eventually took the plunge, while still running a lot of Windows at work, of course. My lifepartner set up her machine as dual-boot, but once she did and got the basic services running, she never went back...especially since she had her old C: drive mounted so she could pick up stuff she'd left behind. Even some of her Windows ham radio programs actually run OK under WINE, which was helpful while she located Linux equvalents. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."