From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Subject: Re: Switching between KDE and GNOME Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 19:54:03 +0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <200307020758.h627wdvS019825@dbmail-mx1.orcon.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200307020758.h627wdvS019825@dbmail-mx1.orcon.co.nz> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie Hello, On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:40:53 +1200, cr wrote: > There *used* to be, in RedHat 7.2 or thereabouts, a 'Desktop switcher' > app. It required a restart of X for it to take effect. But I can't > seem to find it in Debian 3.0. > > cr I don't know how much this'll help, but I have three fully functional window managers/environments (a.k.a. IceWM, GNOME, KDE) that I run depending on my needs, and here's the file I use to switch between them: $ more .Xclients-default exec icewm || exec xterm -fn 7x14 #exec startkde || exec xterm -fn 7x14 #exec gnome-session || exec xterm -fn 7x14 $ As you can probably tell, IceWM is my favorite. BTW, `.Xclients-default' is actually called from another file, at least on my system: $ more .Xclients #!/bin/bash # Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher if [ -e "$HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY" ]; then exec $HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY else exec $HOME/.Xclients-default fi $ I guess this is more flexible, but if you want, you could bypass the convolution and put your GNOME/KDE starting commands in `.Xclients'. These files are shell scripts, of course, and they are a feature of the X Window System. The reason I'm bringing this up is that, seeing as controlling desktop environments/WMs is more of an X issue, people ought to know that there's a standard way they can do it in all distros, regardless of whether the command-line/graphical tools are available (or not). The standard (command-line and graphical) tool, is, of course, `switchdesk'. No surprise: `switchdesk' is itself (mostly) a shell script! One last thing: I read in this thread that someone's been trying to use KDE's window manager with GNOME. Please save yourself the headache! 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