Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:18:57 -0500 From: Michael W.Holdeman <ptfd9100@beanstalk.net> To: Jim Arnold <jarnold@knightridder.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do I switch between window managers? Message-ID: <02032109185707.13992@fcoffice.ptfd.org> In-Reply-To: <a05101501b8bf1052c06c@[192.168.0.4]> References: <B8BE12F8.B4FD%bmcalpine@macconnect.com> <a05101501b8bf1052c06c@[192.168.0.4]>
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I don't have it working yet, but it would seam, at least it worked in SuSE Linux, that you should be able using kdm to select the environment at login, but everytime I try I ALWAYS get kde? Mike On Wednesday 20 March 2002 23:25, you wrote: > At 10:20 AM -0500 3/20/02, Brendan McAlpine wrote: > >Hey all > > > >I just installed KDE and Gnome on my machine and I was wondering how > >I go about switching between them. Right now when I start X, KDE is > >the manager. I would like to go with Gnome. Is there a command to > >switch between window managers? > > I do it the hard way! :) > I just use two shell scripts to mv the right file > into place. one is called "ktog" when I am in KDE and > want to switch to gnome. "gtok" does the opposite. > I just exit KDE or Gnome, run the correct file and startx again. > details below: > > spike 11:18pm 502 ~/bin>more ktog > #!/bin/sh > > # this program switches the .xintrc file from using kde to gnome > > > /bin/mv /home/jim/.xinitrc /home/jim/.xinitrc.kde > /bin/mv /home/jim/.xinitrc.gnome /home/jim/.xinitrc > > ===== > > spike 11:18pm 503 ~/bin>more gtok > #!/bin/sh > > # this program switches the .xintrc file from using gnome to kde > > > /bin/mv /home/jim/.xinitrc /home/jim/.xinitrc.gnome > /bin/mv /home/jim/.xinitrc.kde /home/jim/.xinitrc > > ====== > > .xinitrc for gnome > exec gnome-session > > .xinitrc for kde > exec startkde ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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