Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 21:14:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running 2+ window managers Message-ID: <14676.6558.949570.732632@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <bulk.64383.20000623170234@hub.freebsd.org> References: <bulk.64383.20000623170234@hub.freebsd.org>
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> From: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:29:51 -0700, Todd Meister wrote: > >all files in that directory ending in wm, you should see a good chunk of > >them. > There were only two. :-( > twm and xfwm (from xfce) > ------------------------------ There may only be two installed in X, but there are *lots* in the ports tree! They even have their own directory, /usr/ports/x11-wm. Personally, I use a configured (via the "gcc" configuration program) version of lwm, which is there. > From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org> > Subject: Re: Using 2+ window managers > I don't know if this will work on FreeBSD. But on my Linux box > I can do the following. > > WINDOWMANAGER=quake3 startx X on both platforms is pretty much the same - they both use XFree86. It ought to work. I'd be interested in hearing if it does or not. It may depend on which version of XFree86 you're running, though. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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