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Date:      Sat, 24 Jun 2000 22:44:51 -0400
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net>
To:        "Willem Brown" <willem@brwn.org>
Cc:        "FreeBSD questions" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Using 2+ window managers
Message-ID:  <200006250243.WAA41509@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000623135439.C43080@snoopy.brwn.org>

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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:54:39 +0200, Willem Brown wrote:

>I don't know if this will work on FreeBSD. But on my Linux box
>I can do the following. 
>
>WINDOWMANAGER=quake3 startx

A quick correction. I had previously writen that this worked,
although with a slight different syntax.
That was incorrect. I just happened to have changed the .xinitrc
to the same manager that I typed on the command line to set the
variable, but had forgotten. Once I tried with a different one
it didn't work.

After looking at the scritps it was kind of obvious this would
not work.

So far changing the .xinitrc, using a case statement to prompt
or using differnt "startxxx" scripts are the viable options. I
think I will go with creating separate start scripts.



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