Re: Window Managers

["Sridhar M.A." <mas@uomphysics.net>]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:24:47AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
   > James Buchanan wrote:
   > 
   > >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?
   > >
   > Several people have answered this question, but I haven't seen a 
   > response to your desire for a menu. The easiest way would be to run a 
   > graphical session manager like gdm or kdm, which will let you pick from 
   > a list of installed wm's each time you log in via that session manager. 
   > If you wanted to stay away from graphical session managers, you could 
   > "roll your own" text-based script (someone's probably already done it 
   > and made it available, so you could roll your own or spend time looking 
   > for someone else's script).
   > 
apt-get install selectwm

Add exec selectwm to ~/.xinitrc.

You get a menu of all the window managers installed on your system.

Regards,

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Sridhar M.A.

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