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From: "Marco Calistri" <ik5bcu@tin.it>
To: Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: switching window managers
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:55:59 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030322225559.8260.qmail@linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303191558.h2JFwvF4007542@hartford-hwp.com>

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On 19-Mar-2003 Haines Brown wrote:
> Simon,
> 
>> Hi, I think redhat has the "switchdesk" utility, you can choose whether
>> it is for current session or permanent change.
>> 
>> Give it a whirl.
> 
> Thanks. RH8.0 indeed does have a destop switching tool, but it seems
> to conflate desktop environments (gnome vs kde) and window managers
> (WindowMaker vs. twm). This left me feeling uncomfortable. 
> 
> Since I'm planning a migration from RedHat to gentoo or debian, I
> don't want to become reliant on gui utilities any more than I have
> to. If I were to reconfigure the desktop switcher to recognize icewm,
> I suspect it would be easier to modify a rc file to call icewm in
> the first place. 
> 
> Haines

Hello Haines,Im using IceWm as well from very few days and I simply run:

xinit /usr/local/bin/icewm --:0 

from terminal when I'am here on my RHL-7.3 box,or even run:

icewm

which contains

#!/bin/sh
startx /usr/local/bin/icewm --:0
exit 0

from my job companion Compaq E500 running RHL8.0

By the way suggested documentation contains a lot of stuff for a more deep
customization of IceWM.

Best Regards

Marco


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-22 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <001001c2ee0a$0fd7cdc0$1803a8c0@ets.enterasys.com>
2003-03-19 15:58 ` switching window managers Haines Brown
2003-03-20  9:04   ` Amin
2003-03-22 22:55   ` Marco Calistri [this message]
2003-03-23  4:53     ` Haines Brown
2003-03-23 11:10       ` Amin
2003-03-24 14:26         ` Haines Brown
2003-03-24 19:12       ` Marco Calistri
2003-03-24 21:43         ` Haines Brown
2003-03-24 22:21           ` Haines Brown
2003-03-25 22:08             ` Marco Calistri
2003-03-25 22:08           ` Marco Calistri
2003-03-21  0:00 Heimo Claasen
2003-03-21  8:14 ` Amin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-18 19:20 Haines Brown

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