On Tuesday 06 August 2002 13:37, peter@frontierflying.com wrote:
If you look at the xinitrc, you should see that the environmental variable WINDOWMANAGER is checked to see what is set. You can copy the system xinitrc file (which I believe lives in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit) to your home directory as .xinitrc don't forget the . . You can then play with variables in your .cshrc or whatever shell you use. Worst case scenario just define the windowmanager in that file. Go to the bottm where it says exec $WINDOWMANAGER, comment that out and replace it with exec kwm & or exec twm & or exec fvwm &
Whichever windowmanager you choose. Then startx will fire it up with no other variables on the command line.
Unlike previous SuSE installs, this time I just installed KDE with a couple of wm options, and didn't bother to even have Gnome as an option. However, back in the days when I used to jump around a lot among window managers and display managers and themes and... I seem to recall that Gnome used to give a lot of choice (via drop-down pick-list) at the graphical login. Does KDE have similar available? Or do all choices need to be "hard-coded" into config files before X starts up? /kevin -- ** DIR-ty DEEDS, and they're DONE dirt cheap. (Sing it, now...)