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Re: [opensuse] Fwd: How do I config "startx" to give me a desktop?
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:49:25 +0200
  • Message-id: <4C6D5285.8030703@xxxxxxxxx>
On 2010-08-19 16:30, Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Carlos E. R. (robin.listas@xxxxxxxxx) [20100819 15:22]:

# WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/twm

What should I write to get, say, gnome?

Either add a simple WINDOWMANAGER=gnome at the top of .xinitrc

It still boots kde4.

Perhaps with the path? [...] Nope, insists on kde4.

or at the
end do 'exec gnome' instead of 'exec $WINDOWMANAGER'.

This one works :-)

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))

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