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Date:      Sun, 5 May 2002 16:37:41 -0400
From:      Steve Brown <freebsd@prayforwind.com>
To:        "AMI" <ami@lycos.ru>, "FreeBSD-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Changing X window managers
Message-ID:  <20020505203742.OYVW24167.tomts23-srv.bellnexxia.net@there>
In-Reply-To: <007b01c1f3f1$9de0ae20$0100a8c0@p7>
References:  <007b01c1f3f1$9de0ae20$0100a8c0@p7>

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As root goto /usr/ports/x11-wm/<preferred-windowmanager> and "make && make 
install". 

Now, users can create or edit /home/<userID>/.xinitrc .
Change the line which says "exec twm"  to say "exec <preferred-windowmanager>"

If it's one of the full environments (like KDE), change it to say "startkde" 
instead. Here's mine as an example:

$ more .xinitrc
 xscreensaver &
 xearth -nomarker -wait 30 &
# exec twm
# exec afterstep
startxfce
# startkde
$

On May 5, 2002 12:58 am, AMI wrote:
> How I can to choose and change Window Manager under X? FreeBSD 4.5 STABLE
> distributive set it as twm desktop as default. And can I create several
> runnable desksides for using X, for instance, KDE, Gnome, AfterStep, gwm
> and other and load their alternately?
>
>
> WBR,
> Andrew
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