From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Subject: Re: switching window managers Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:04:31 +0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030320090431.GB838@localhost.localdomain> References: <001001c2ee0a$0fd7cdc0$1803a8c0@ets.enterasys.com> <200303191558.h2JFwvF4007542@hartford-hwp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303191558.h2JFwvF4007542@hartford-hwp.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Cc: simon.doyle@applysystems.co.uk, linux@hartford-hwp.com On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:58:57AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > don't want to become reliant on gui utilities any more > than I have ``switchdesk'' also works in text-only mode, I believe. True, though, that it does not show you any choices in that mode, so you have to supply your desktop environment/window manager as the argument. > I suspect it would be easier to modify a rc file to call > icewm in the first place. I use a bash script called ``ice'', which contains: #!/bin/bash startx /usr/bin/icewm -- :0 Take a look at Steve Litt's ``Linux Productivity Magazine'' issue about IceWM at http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200209/200209.htm. It's what convinced me to switch to IceWM. HTH, Yawar Amin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs