I installed XFCE but now I want to load KDE again. I tried "startx kde" and "startx kdm", without the quotes, but it insists on loading xfce. I even

I do multiple WM stuff with scripts. Create a little script for each wm you want to use along the lines of this template (assuming you use bash shell). There is probably a more elegant way to do this but this works for me! BTW, don't call the script starting kde "kde", KDE is ok though - reason being if your kde script is in the search path, when you type "kde" it will recursively try to run itself rather than /usr/X11R6/bin/kde - I found this out the hard way! #!/bin/sh declare -x WINDOWMANAGER="/usr/X11R6/bin/<WM_executable>" startx for non-bash you might want to et WINDOWMANAGER=........ export WINDOWMANAGER startx ome executable names KDE......kde xfce.......xfwm icewm....icewm On Sunday, February 27, 2000 2:04 AM, KULISHdotCOM [SMTP:noc@kulish.com] wrote: tried

setting the system wide default WM to KDE, still with no luck.

What am I missing here?

Thanks. CK

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