From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 24 8: 0:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29DA037B656 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 08:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp2.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.17]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA16413; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 16:59:06 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e5OEkMi00507; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 17:46:22 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 17:46:22 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running 2+ window managers Message-ID: <20000624174621.B459@hades.hell.gr> References: <14676.6558.949570.732632@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <14676.6558.949570.732632@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 09:14:54PM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 09:14:54PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: >From: "Francisco Reyes" >> 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. This is a feature of the default .xinitrc that is distributed by some Linux distributions, such as SuSE Linux. The default .xinitrc script does something along the lines of: WINDOWMANAGER=${WINDOWMANAGER:-twm} # more code here # ... # finally exec the window manager (twm by default) exec ${WINDOWMANEGER} Of course, this is not Linux-specific and it can be done on any Unix-type OS that runs XFree86. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public key: finger keramida@ceid.upatras.gr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message