Well, I had set 'automatic login' during setup so I didn't know it was possible to choose session type at login.
Anyway, after turning off automatic login I tried ICEwm and found it rather pathetic. A klunky interface was not what I wanted. (Maybe there is a way to configure it better?) A less burdensome window manager was what I wanted. What I'd like to do is reduce the system load of KDE. FVWM seems to be the main cause of KDE bloat. Is it possible to make KDE use a different window manager like ICEwm or WindowMaker? Or would these not support the functions that FVWM does?
Weirdly, though, many programs which were not listed in the KDE menus are listed in the ICEwm menus. Now why would a program be installed and not listed in the menus?
Also, how do I go about installing a manufacturer's video driver? The default driver for my Matrox video card doesn't support 3D functions. I have the Matrox driver(s) in a .tar archive but don't know how I'd install them.
And one other annoyance, my CD drive is constantly blinking! I remember this from Windows. There is some sort of autodetect that checks for a disk every few seconds. I was able to turn it off in Windows but haven't figured out how to turn it off in SUSE Linux yet. There must be a setting somewhere, just like in Windows?
Also, I found that I
cannot uninstall Firefox despite it's being a supposed 'third party' application. When I try I get a bunch of dependency warning about X11 -- So apparently I'd damage or disable X11 by removing it. This smacks of Microsoft tactics. Why would they put something essential to the windowing system into an application library?
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