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