Re: Current WM - Lenny

[Miguel Obliviemo <miggle@view.net.au>]

On Tue, 12 May 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote:

> Miguel Obliviemo:
> > On Tue, 12 May 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:
> >
> > > On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo <miggle@view.net.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > > What is Lenny's default window manager?
> > > >
> > > > How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
> >
> > > I may be completely wrong here, but I *think* it's xfce4. To change
> >
> > I wanted to know that so I could kill it in an xterm and run another,
> > but that wouldn't be a permanent setup, the normal way of starting a
> > WM.
>
> Do you want to run another window manager *inside Gnome*? Then you need
> to kill metacity and directly afterwards start your preferred window
> manager: pkill metacity && openbox.

Well, I admit I don't know what "inside Gnome" means.  I thought if I
killed the window manager within an x-term I'd have bare X11, and
would be in an xterm so I could enter the commands to start other
window managers.

--
Miguel