From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 23 19:15: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom1-057.telepath.com [216.14.1.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5897A37B73A for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:14:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 73488 invoked by uid 100); 24 Jun 2000 02:14:54 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14676.6558.949570.732632@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 21:14:54 -0500 (CDT) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running 2+ window managers In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Francisco Reyes" > 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 > 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.