From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Aug 2 5:46:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [63.86.88.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E17D37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 05:46:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id EFF6C7586; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 05:48:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25061DA1; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 05:48:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 05:48:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: JT Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting CDROM's, Setting Voodoo3 Depth Settings, and Switching Window Managers. In-Reply-To: <20010802004412.F424@zed.unbeat.com> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, JT wrote: : :On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 06:29:36PM -0500, John wrote: :> :> Third, I want a program that will let me choose which Window Manager I want :> to use upon the start of the X server after login. Or maybe even a graphical :> login will work, like the graphical logins on Mandrake and Red Hat Linux. :> Does anyone know if there is such a program ported to FreeBSD? :> : :This is easiest with shell scripts. Write one that does the following and use it instead of startx. Say, "xme". : : MY_WM=$1; export MY_WM : exec startx Another option is to make something other than your window manager your exec process. You can then switch window managers without exiting X. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message