At 10:16 AM 3/16/2000 +0000, wulfie wrote:

Check .xinitrc in your home dir - the last line probably says "exec xfce". Change this to "exec kde". If you want to avoid this type of silliness, set this instead to "exec $WINDOWMANAGER" and set your windowmanger in a script. I start xfce with a script called xfc which goes like :

USE THESE scripts below , put them in /sr/bin and chmod them so all can run them. They work real nice. You will need to pas the 16 bit mode as it defaoults to 8 bit with out it. #!/bin/sh declare -x WINDOWMANAGER="/usr/X11R6/bin/xfwm" startx -- -bpp 16

similarly, I start kde with script xkde:

#!/bin/sh declare -x WINDOWMANAGER="/usr/X11R6/bin/kde"

startx -- -bpp 16

Just create scripts for each WM you want to run, make them executable (chmod 711) and put them in /usr/bin or into each user's home dir if you don't want public access.

At 10:19 PM 3/28/2000 -0800, Benton Lam wrote:

First, the stupid question. What is the proper way to set my default windowmanager? I'm currently hardcoding my .xinitrc to make it boot windowmaker (according many advices) but I wish I can use the proper way to do so. My thought about the problems that goes on this lists is that there's only two problems with Linux, Hardware quirks and Software interfaces. Most of the messages on this list is either about help on non-standard hardware or people misconfigure, or not knowing how to configure the software. BTW is there an official way to load my sound on boot?

Calyth

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