Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 17 Sep 2013, Luis Bandarra wrote:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> # script to start a new server with i3
> DISPLAY=:0
> Xephyr :1 -ac -br -reset -terminate -screen 1280x1024 2> /dev/null &
> sleep 2
> DISPLAY=:1
> i3 &
> 
> but you can use just the command line's commands...
> 
> Hope it helps...
> 


I use this:


# switch to icewm
xinit  /home/ac/.xxinitrc -- :1 &



where ,xxinitrc is a modified version of .xinitrc to run icewm (in this
case). I can then switch back and forth between spectrwm and icewm with
Ctrl-Alt-Fx.


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