Re: Window manager switcher
>>>Carl Fink wrote:
> jtr@uni-bon.de writes:
>
> > If you have installed the `menu'-package, click on the entry
> > `window-managers', where you have entries for all installed WMs. If
> > you click on one, it changes to this WM -- that's all, no extra
> > utility needed. (Why, it's Debian :).)
>
> Yes, I know, but I have KDE installed now and it's not in fact
> appearing as a choice there, and in the past when I've used that
> feature it hasn't made a permanent change -- it just loaded a
> different window manager for that particular session. I'm looking for
> something that can:
>
> 1)Handle more than just "window manager" changes (even
> though that's what I wrote). I want it to handle "operating
> environments" like KDE/GNOME as well.
AFAIK, debian treat them the same.
Slink and potato use the
/etc/X11/window-mangers file to determine the default window
manager (first one is the default). Some weeks ago Potato
switched from the the window-managers file to the alternatives
mechanism. Now Potato in x-window-manager is a link to the
default window manager.
> 2)Actually change config files so that you don't revert to
> your previous WM/environment on your next boot.
Slink: update /etc/X11/window-mangers
Potato change x-window-mangers link via 'ln' or update-alternatives
the user can change the system default in the file ~/.wmrc
Achim
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