From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 5 13:20:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A4D37B404 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 13:20:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chip3.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A3F020E00126; Sun, 05 May 2002 13:20:00 -0700 Subject: Re: Changing X window managers From: Chip Wiegand To: AMI Cc: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <007b01c1f3f1$9de0ae20$0100a8c0@p7> References: <007b01c1f3f1$9de0ae20$0100a8c0@p7> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 05 May 2002 13:22:43 -0700 Message-Id: <1020630164.2300.3.camel@chip3.wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Sat, 2002-05-04 at 22:58, AMI wrote: > How I can to choose and change Window Manager under X? FreeBSD 4.5 STABLE > distributive set it as twm desktop as default. And can I create several > runnable desksides for using X, for instance, KDE, Gnome, AfterStep, gwm and > other and load their alternately? > > > WBR, > Andrew Probably the easiest way, to get started with, is /stand/sysinstall (as root of course). You will have 5 or 6 'window managers' to choose from in there. Or just install from the ports, there are many, many to choose from. As for switching between window managers, there's xdm, kdm, gdm, and maybe more, not sure. -- Chip W www.wiegand.org chip@wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message