From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 12:12:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D2C816A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:12:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mxsf06.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf06.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0328B43FE0 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:12:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from moe.howse.homeunix.net (jackson-66-168-145-25.midtn.chartertn.net [66.168.145.25]) hAKK7Rtg018634; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:07:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) From: Charles Howse To: skidmore@digital-village.net Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:07:26 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1069358192.77553.7.camel@digital-village.net> In-Reply-To: <1069358192.77553.7.camel@digital-village.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311201407.26773.chowse@charter.net> cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Selecting a Window Manager at X Startup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:12:22 -0000 On Thursday 20 November 2003 01:56 pm, Barry Skidmore wrote: > I have both Gnome and KDE installed on my 4.9-RELEASE system, and would > like to be able to choose between them at X startup. > > I found a port called 'wmanager' that sounds like it will do what I > need. However, there is no man page or other documentation available on > the web, so I have not been able to configure the '.wmmanagerrc' file. > I have also been unable to find the 'wmanagerrc-update' program which is > supposed to do this for you. The author's web page no longer exists. > > Has anyone else used either this program or something similar? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html Several replacements for the default XDM program exist. One of them, KDM (bundled with KDE) is described later in this chapter. KDM offers many visual improvements and cosmetic frills, as well as the functionality to allow users to choose their window manager of choice at login time. -- Thanks, Charles http://howse.homeunix.net Random Murphy's Law: Superiority is recessive.