[Fwd: Re: [SLE] Switching between windows managers on the fly]

just log out -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [SLE] Switching between windows managers on the fly Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 07:58:20 -0500 From: James Knott To: suse-linux-e References: <20040306080343.5ff34506@gaf.gaf.net> <200403060725.38878.srglasoe@comcast.net> <20040306122308.4e80f534@gaf.gaf.net> Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 07:25:38 -0600 "S.R.Glasoe" wrote:

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On Saturday 06 March 2004 07:03 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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I used to be able to switch window managers on the fly without logging out. (One may certainly select Window managers from the Session manager).

The reason I want to do this is that I want to show different window managers to my students.

If you start with KDE, then from the main menu choose "Start New Session" and they start popping up on Ctrl+Alt+F8 through Ctrl+Alt+Fx. Works great. I've had KDE, XFce4 and Gnome all up at once with little effect on performance. Each session can be logged on as a different userid also...

I was able to set up different window managers like FVWM, but not Gnome.

That might be an issue because I am using KDM as my DM, and apparently GDM does not support multi-sessions. In any case, that is good enough for my purposes.

Is there any way to kill the additional sessions, once you're done with them? The usual logout options don't seem to be appropriate, unless you want to reboot or shut down the computer. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com -- Hans Krueger hans007@prexar.com registered Linux user 289023 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin