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



On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 06:44:28PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:57:54PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > 
> > Someone in private mail suggested Enlightenment. Openbox was already
> > on my list.
> > Desktop environments lean towards over kill.
> > Enlightenment and awesome will be investigated further.
> > 
> Then I'd also suggest Fluxbox.  By the way, Fluxbox has a "Window
> Managers" entry in its menu which allows you to switch to other window
> managers, such as Openbox, without even closing your session.  I just
> did it.  Now I'm in Openbox with no apparent way of switching back
> without logging out, so I'll have to figure out how Fluxbox does that...

Typically, you can say "some-window-manager --replace" (for example
"metacity --replace" or "xfwm4 --replace") to launch a new window
manager and replace your current one.

> 
> -Rob


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