From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marco Calistri" Subject: Re: switching window managers Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:55:59 +0100 (CET) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030322225559.8260.qmail@linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org> References: <200303191558.h2JFwvF4007542@hartford-hwp.com> Reply-To: ik5bcu@tin.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200303191558.h2JFwvF4007542@hartford-hwp.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Haines Brown Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+fOmas0ru0Kz1knARApA7AKCy4lgaDxzvVt/0wxdBZaBlPs4+HgCcCwi0 p2ztfJiohMrFiZVsqW+h9P8= =z+9V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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