How does one call an alternative window manager on SL10.1? (KDE runs fine on the box.) According to yast I have icewm installed, but I can't find any way to launch it. I also can't find an binary file anything like "icewm". TIA Paul
Hi, On Fri, 19 May 2006, Paul Kaplan wrote:
How does one call an alternative window manager on SL10.1? (KDE runs fine on the box.) According to yast I have icewm installed, but I can't find any way to launch it. I also can't find an binary file anything like "icewm".
startx icewm Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)
On Friday 19 May 2006 17:58, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 19 May 2006, Paul Kaplan wrote:
How does one call an alternative window manager on SL10.1? (KDE runs fine on the box.) According to yast I have icewm installed, but I can't find any way to launch it. I also can't find an binary file anything like "icewm".
startx icewm
Cheers -e That's what I thought, but when I do that I get the grey X background and an xterm with no window manager running. The only thing that gives me a window manager is startx which launches kde. Paul
Paul Kaplan wrote:
On Friday 19 May 2006 17:58, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 19 May 2006, Paul Kaplan wrote:
How does one call an alternative window manager on SL10.1? (KDE runs fine on the box.) According to yast I have icewm installed, but I can't find any way to launch it. I also can't find an binary file anything like "icewm". startx icewm
Cheers -e That's what I thought, but when I do that I get the grey X background and an xterm with no window manager running. The only thing that gives me a window manager is startx which launches kde.
I'm not sure why Mr Moenkenberg put it the way he did, but the way to get an icewm session is to select icewm from the session menu at the login screen and log in. Joe
Hi, On Fri, 19 May 2006, J Sloan wrote:
Paul Kaplan wrote:
On Friday 19 May 2006 17:58, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Fri, 19 May 2006, Paul Kaplan wrote:
How does one call an alternative window manager on SL10.1? (KDE runs fine on the box.) According to yast I have icewm installed, but I can't find any way to launch it. I also can't find an binary file anything like "icewm". startx icewm
That's what I thought, but when I do that I get the grey X background and an xterm with no window manager running. The only thing that gives me a window manager is startx which launches kde.
I'm not sure why Mr Moenkenberg put it the way he did, but the way to get an icewm session is to select icewm from the session menu at the login screen and log in.
... or just put DEFAULT_WM="icewm" in /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager. It is not mentioned in the comments there, but it works. Personally, I boot into runlevel 3 usually. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:31:08PM -0700, J Sloan wrote:
I'm not sure why Mr Moenkenberg put it the way he did, but the way to get an icewm session is to select icewm from the session menu at the login screen and log in.
run `wmlist` to see what else you have. To test you can do the following: open a terminal and run: `startx icewn -- :1` That will open a second X-session. You can switch between them with [CTRL][AL][F7] and [CTRL][AL][F8]. If you do something you do not know how to get rid of, you can just do a [CTRL][C] in the terminal and it kills off rather unnicly the other session. I use it for the occasional times I want to look at the horrors others call KDE or GNOME (Brrrr). Windowmaker just running fine here, thank you. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
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On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 08:09:07AM +0200, houghi wrote:
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:31:08PM -0700, J Sloan wrote:
I'm not sure why Mr Moenkenberg put it the way he did, but the way to get an icewm session is to select icewm from the session menu at the login screen and log in.
run `wmlist` to see what else you have.
Darn. Now I am giving technical answers on a non-technical group. Please go to suse-linux-e for this kind of thing. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier...
houghi wrote:
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 08:09:07AM +0200, houghi wrote:
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:31:08PM -0700, J Sloan wrote:
I'm not sure why Mr Moenkenberg put it the way he did, but the way to get an icewm session is to select icewm from the session menu at the login screen and log in. run `wmlist` to see what else you have.
Darn. Now I am giving technical answers on a non-technical group.
Please go to suse-linux-e for this kind of thing.
Ooh - good catch - my bad for prolonging the thread. Joe
houghi wrote:
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:31:08PM -0700, J Sloan wrote:
I'm not sure why Mr Moenkenberg put it the way he did, but the way to get an icewm session is to select icewm from the session menu at the login screen and log in.
run `wmlist` to see what else you have.
Bravo - I actually hadn't known about that utility until now.
To test you can do the following: open a terminal and run: `startx icewn -- :1` That will open a second X-session. You can switch between them with [CTRL][AL][F7] and [CTRL][AL][F8]. If you do something you do not know how to get rid of, you can just do a [CTRL][C] in the terminal and it kills off rather unnicly the other session.
I use it for the occasional times I want to look at the horrors others call KDE or GNOME (Brrrr). Windowmaker just running fine here, thank you.
Well...I've been using mostly kde for the past 2 years, but I had used gnome a lot in the past and have lately been checking it out again (since the gnome/xgl stuff that appeared in 10.1). I've also spent some using e17, wmaker and xfce. I used to use used blackbox and icewm, which are great for low resource machines or servers, but for a full function/all purpose desktop, gnome or kde are what work best for me. Joe
Hi, On Fri, 19 May 2006, Paul Kaplan wrote:
On Friday 19 May 2006 17:58, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Fri, 19 May 2006, Paul Kaplan wrote:
How does one call an alternative window manager on SL10.1? (KDE runs fine on the box.) According to yast I have icewm installed, but I can't find any way to launch it. I also can't find an binary file anything like "icewm".
startx icewm
That's what I thought, but when I do that I get the grey X background and an xterm with no window manager running. The only thing that gives me a window manager is startx which launches kde.
You should get a bottom line with icons, and a mouse right click should give some options. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)
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