Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:03:23 +0400 From: "AMI" <ami@lycos.ru> To: "FreeBSD-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Changing X window managers Message-ID: <016d01c1f4e6$d4630880$0100a8c0@p7> References: <007b01c1f3f1$9de0ae20$0100a8c0@p7> <20020505212733.GA42735@moo.holy.cow>
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Thank you very much for the reply, Parv! I'm trying your 2th way as advance, and I use Steve's method now as first experiment. --- Sincerely yours, AMI > in message <007b01c1f3f1$9de0ae20$0100a8c0@p7>, > wrote AMI thusly... > > > > 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? > > there are at least two ways to do it. > > 1- configure each & every wm to switch to other wm's. then, use > each wm's restart like function to change wm. in fvwm2, it > is the "Restart" function... > > Restart <wm w/ optional config file> > > 2- in ~/.xinitrc, start your first wm in background & any other > program (which you want to keep until you quit X all together) in > foreground... > > fvwm2 & > rclock > > ...then, in the primary window/desktop/pager, in xterm, kill > fvwm2 and start any other wm. this is the way i do it. > > ....some people would suggest using some sort of *-session program > which i used exactly once. > > then, i reverted to the 1st method for some time, but tvtwm doesn't > allow any other wm to be restarted. in addition, some wm's allow > only the program name to be specified but not any other arguments, > say non standard configuration file. the 2d method is very flexible > and i use it currently. > > > - parv > > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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