Re: Xmonad usage.
On 25 Jan 2013, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
>
> Switching the WM with update-alternatives struck me as better
> for a novice reading http://wiki.debian.org/Xmonad .
>
With the method you give on the wiki you have to log out and in again to
swap the WM. I prefer to have two different WMs running simultaneously
and swap between them with Alt-Shift-F8 and Alt-Shift-F7. I have a
little script which launches an alternative WM (icewm in my case):
# switch to icewm
xinit /home/ac/.xxinitrc -- :1 &
Where .xxinitrc is my usual .xinitrc altered to launch icewm.
Actually, I use spectrwm instead of xmonad (avoids haskell) but the
same method applies. I seem to remember that ratpoison has the inbuilt
optio to swap window managers.
The reason I have this arrangement is that although I like tiling WMs
none of them works very well with programs that open a lot of windows,
like xsane and gimp. A stacking WM is better for these.
AC
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