Greetings:

After I installed Slackware 10.1 and Xorg, I was surpised (NOT
pleasantly) to find that the behavior of xinit has changed -- instead
of having a bare-minimum root window at top right corner it now runs
the twm (which I set to be my default window manager). And in order to
launch KDE I'd have to shut down twm first -- yuck and gross!!!

So I'm wondering how I can change the behaviour of xinit back to the
way it was back in the XFree86 3.x ~ 4.0 days?

Regards,

Shuo Xiang

did you try running xwmconfig to set kde as the default?
wayne
Lampiasi@bellsouth.net


sxiang@student.math.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> After I installed Slackware 10.1 and Xorg, I was surpised (NOT
> pleasantly) to find that the behavior of xinit has changed -- instead
> of having a bare-minimum root window at top right corner it now runs
> the twm (which I set to be my default window manager). And in order to
> launch KDE I'd have to shut down twm first -- yuck and gross!!!
>
> So I'm wondering how I can change the behaviour of xinit back to the
> way it was back in the XFree86 3.x ~ 4.0 days?
>
> Regards,
>
> Shuo Xiang
>

yes, i suppose i can use xwmconfig to do that.

but i also remember that back in the old days xinit starts up the
bare-minimum root window and then i can decide which wm to run by
keying in the appropriate commands.

so i'm wondering if that's offered anymore.

REgards,

Shuo Xiang

sxiang@student.math.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
> yes, i suppose i can use xwmconfig to do that.
>
> but i also remember that back in the old days xinit starts up the
> bare-minimum root window and then i can decide which wm to run by
> keying in the appropriate commands.
>
> so i'm wondering if that's offered anymore.
>
> REgards,
>
> Shuo Xiang
>

try: xinit xterm

thank you, i'll try it.