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From: Michael W.Holdeman <ptfd9100@beanstalk.net>
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To: Jim Arnold <jarnold@knightridder.com>
Subject: Re: How do I switch between window managers?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:18:57 -0500
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I don't have it working yet, but it would seam, at least it worked in SuSE 
Linux, that you should be able using kdm to select the environment at login, 
but everytime I try I ALWAYS get kde?


Mike




On Wednesday 20 March 2002 23:25, you wrote:
> At 10:20 AM -0500 3/20/02, 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?
>
> I do it the hard way! :)
> I just use two shell scripts to mv the right file
> into place. one is called "ktog" when I am in KDE and
> want to switch to gnome. "gtok" does the opposite.
> I just exit KDE or Gnome, run the correct file and startx again.
> details below:
>
> spike 11:18pm 502 ~/bin>more ktog
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # this program switches the .xintrc file from using kde to gnome
>
>
> /bin/mv /home/jim/.xinitrc /home/jim/.xinitrc.kde
> /bin/mv /home/jim/.xinitrc.gnome /home/jim/.xinitrc
>
> =====
>
> spike 11:18pm 503 ~/bin>more gtok
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # this program switches the .xintrc file from using gnome to kde
>
>
> /bin/mv /home/jim/.xinitrc /home/jim/.xinitrc.gnome
> /bin/mv /home/jim/.xinitrc.kde /home/jim/.xinitrc
>
> ======
>
> .xinitrc for gnome
> exec gnome-session
>
> .xinitrc for kde
> exec startkde

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