From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 7:39:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1FA37B416 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:39:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D1FA5901A00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:38:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:38:39 -0500 From: mpd To: Brendan McAlpine Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I switch between window managers? Message-ID: <20020320103839.A41013@rochester.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from bmcalpine@macconnect.com on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:20:40AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:20:40AM -0500, Brendan McAlpine wrote: > > Hey all > I just installed KDE and Gnome on my machine and I was wondering how I > go about switching between them. Right now when I start X, KDE is the > manager. I would like to go with Gnome. Is there a command to switch > between window managers? No, but you can easily script one. Just kill the current manager and start the new one. You don't need to quit X to do this. > TIA > Brendan mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "YES! COURTESY OF MR NUTTY!!!" - Pokey the Penguin from "THE END OF THE WORLD" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message