Re: Window Managers

[Hugh Saunders <hugh@mjr.org>]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 04:28:45PM +1100, James Buchanan 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?
put the window manager you would like to start with [afterstep?] in your .xession file.

shell [bash] scripts really arent that bad, read some bash howtos and
bash-scripting howtos.

hugh --no expert but can now manage a simple script!