Re: Window Managers

["Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>]

on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 04:28:45PM +1100, James Buchanan (jamesbuch@iprimus.com.au) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I run `startx' I would like afterstep to run, and I would like a
> menu giving me a list of all the window managers/desktop environments
> that I can run.  How do I tell startx to run afterstep by default?  I
> have done `man startx'  but it's all incomprehensible gibberish to me!
> :-(  I did look at xinitrc but again, I can't read shell scripts.
> None of it looks obvious to me unfortunately.  Oh yes, apparently
> Gnome is installed, but how do I run it?

Systemwide:

    # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager 

For your own use, make the following the last line of ~/.xsession

    exec afterstep

...and take a look at WindowMaker if you like Afterstep.

Peace.

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