Re: Newbie: Setting up different Window Manager's

[jeffd <kabal@undercoverworld.com>]

pvbedu-pereira@yahoo.com.br wrote:
> i've just installed linux on my machine for the first
> time, the sarge dist, and since i haven't any
> experience with the differents window managers i was
> thinking in installing a couple of them and play with
> them for a while until I decide. My problem is, how
> can I from the command line start different window
> managers? 'Cause when I do a 'startx' it only loads
> the default window manager, right? so how can I do it?
> i was thinking in trying kde, gnome, icewm,
> windowMaker and fvwm, probably not all of them but
> some...
>
> thanks in advance for the help,
> E. Pereira

Hi,

In your ~/.xinitrc you can control what window manager you use.  For 
windowmaker your ~/.xinitrc would look like this:

PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"


exec wmaker


for example .. for icewm you would use icewm instead of wmaker, KDE 
would be startkde, gnome would be gnome-session, fvwm would be fvwm ..

HTH,
Jeff