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[pbleser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Pascal Bleser)]

The better way is to have a new environment setting, let's call it "WINM"
(don't use "WINDOWMANAGER", it's already used by some system scripts and
will confuse some of them)...
You just need to add a line to /etc/profile, like this:
...
export WINM=kde
...
(and don't forget "export")
Every user can customize this setting in his very own ~/.profile
Now, you just need to change the /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc script...
I attached mine, that works with kde, fvwm2, fvwm, afterstep and twm, but
it's very easy to extend (even if you're not used to shell scripts)...

I even made a little script called "x", which provides you with a menu
(using dialog) with the different windowmanagers... you choose one, and the
script sets WINM="afterstep", for example, and then makes "startx"... I have
to retrieve it from my very own Linux box, which is on another network (and
there's no communication between 'em... so, if have to go upstairs ;-) -
I'll send it this afternoon, ok ?

Pascal
l'irréductible Linuxien

P.S.:
don't forget to do some environment settings:
in /etc/profile, add the lines:
export KDEDIR=/opt/kde
export PATH=$PATH:$KDEDIR/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$KDEDIR/lib

-----Original Message-----
From: alexser@xxxxxxx <alexser@xxxxxxx>
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
Date: mercredi 1 avril 1998 07:19
Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] How to set a different WM?

Hi!

I am a new user of Linux and S.u.S.E having just installed it
yesterday. Now I am trying to find a way to change the default Window
Manager to KDE. Could someone tell me which file should be changed
and how? Also what should be done when I want to upgrade the version
of KDE to a new one?

Thank you in advance for your help.

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#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

# start some nice programs

# xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
# xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
# xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &

if [ -n "$WINM" ];
then	case "$WINM" in
		kde) exec startkde;;
		fvwm2) exec fvwm2;;
		fbwm) exec fvwm;;
		afterstep) exec afterstep;;
		*) exec twm
	esac
else	exec twm
fi