Re: WINDOW MANAGER

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

suadeo@home.com wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:43:42AM -0800, D. Hoyem wrote:
>> How do I change the current default Window Manager
>> (ICE WIN) I think to Black Box or something other than
>I think you mean icewm?
>
>> what it is.  If I select Black Box, or any other
>> manager from the current Manager Menu it will change
>> to that, but then when I exit and do a startx the
>> system freezes.  The Xlog said something like no
>> window manager detected.
>
>You have to edit your ~/.xinitrc . I would do a little simple command:
>
>echo "exec blackbox" > ~/.xinitrc

Please, replace that > with a >>, just in case the user already has an
~/.xinitrc ...

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]