Can someone remind me how to switch window managers? - Slack 10
Thanks,
Mort

Mort wrote:

> Can someone remind me how to switch window managers? - Slack 10
> Thanks,
> Mort

I just change the line in ~/.xinitrc

Hope this is what you wanted.

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:24:17 -0800, Mort wrote:

> Can someone remind me how to switch window managers? - Slack 10
> Thanks,
> Mort

xwmconfig

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> Can someone remind me how to switch window managers? - Slack 10

Modify your ~/.xinitrc file.

cordially, as always,

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Ed wrote:

> Mort wrote:
>
>> Can someone remind me how to switch window managers? - Slack 10
>> Thanks,
>> Mort
>
> I just change the line in ~/.xinitrc
>
> Hope this is what you wanted.

I run 9.1. and don't have a ~/.xinitrc but I do have

zzzzz:~$ locate xinitrc
/etc/X11/xfce4/xinitrc
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.kde
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.twm
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.fvwm2
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.blackbox
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.fvwm95
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.wmaker
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.fluxbox

Is this file a 10.1 things? I found this page which talks about .xinitrc
and .xsession but I have neither. Very confused here. Help me out. Where
does .xintirc come from?

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/co...x/xinitrc.html

Al C.

Al. C wrote:

> Ed wrote:
>
>> Mort wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone remind me how to switch window managers? - Slack 10
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mort
>>
>> I just change the line in ~/.xinitrc
>>
>> Hope this is what you wanted.
>
> I run 9.1. and don't have a ~/.xinitrc but I do have
>
> zzzzz:~$ locate xinitrc
> /etc/X11/xfce4/xinitrc
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.kde
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.twm
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.fvwm2
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.blackbox
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.fvwm95
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.wmaker
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.fluxbox
>
> Is this file a 10.1 things? I found this page which talks about .xinitrc
> and .xsession but I have neither. Very confused here. Help me out. Where
> does .xintirc come from?
>
> http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/co...x/xinitrc.html
>
> Al C.

Update: This explains more about xinitrc.... but I still don't understand why
one was not created for me by the Slack 9.1 installer?

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/...lxwindows.html


-Al C.

Ed wrote:
> Mort wrote:
>
>
>>Can someone remind me how to switch window managers? - Slack 10
>>Thanks,
>>Mort
>
>
> I just change the line in ~/.xinitrc
>
> Hope this is what you wanted.
Or, in a xterm window, run xwmconfig

--

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Al. C wrote:
> Update: This explains more about xinitrc.... but I still don't understand why
> one was not created for me by the Slack 9.1 installer?

because slack is not that kind of distro. it provides the global xinitrc in
/etc/X11/xinit/, and if you want an .xinitrc for your own user account, you
do it yourself. does the slackware installer provide *anything* for user
accounts? IIRC the slack installer doesn't even *create* a user account.

--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)

On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 16:47 Al. C, wrote:

> Update: This explains more about xinitrc.... but I still don't
> understand why one was not created for me by the Slack 9.1 installer?

AFAIK ~/.xinitrc is created when xwmconfig is used to change the default
WM, which root may have set up during install. When xwmconfig is run it
changes the default, root selected, WM to the users WM of choice and
creates the necessary .xinitrc. If you are a user and happy with roots
choice you won't need ~/.xinitrc.
Does that help?
--
del 8-)

Al. C wrote:

>Ed wrote:
>Is this file a 10.1 things? I found this page which talks about .xinitrc
>and .xsession but I have neither. Very confused here. Help me out. Where
>does .xintirc come from?
>
>
No, it's not a 10.1 (or any other Slackware) thing, it's an X Window
System thing.

The files in /etc/X11/xinit are shell programs (look at one) that start
whatever X Window System window manager you've chosen with a given set
of defaults -- if you don't like the defaults, the .xinitrc file in your
home directory can be used to change them; however, you don't want to
screw with things unless you know what you're doing and why you're doing it.

Go buy, oh, "{The Concise Guide to} XFree86 for Linux" (or any X Window
System book) and read about how the server and the window manager does
what it does and how you can change that to fit your peculiar tastes --
look in the index before you buy the book and see what's there for
xinitrc and xsession and, what the heck, xdefaults before you buy the thing.