From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 3:15:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailbox-3.st1.spray.net (mailbox-3.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E60537B419 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 03:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from p7 (spb-213-33-245-194.sovintel.ru [213.33.245.194] (may be forged)) by mailbox-3.st1.spray.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01432 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 12:14:27 +0200 (DST) Posted-Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:14:27 +0200 (DST) Message-ID: <016d01c1f4e6$d4630880$0100a8c0@p7> From: "AMI" To: "FreeBSD-questions" References: <007b01c1f3f1$9de0ae20$0100a8c0@p7> <20020505212733.GA42735@moo.holy.cow> Subject: Re: Changing X window managers Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:03:23 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you very much for the reply, Parv! I'm trying your 2th way as advance, and I use Steve's method now as first experiment. --- Sincerely yours, AMI > in message <007b01c1f3f1$9de0ae20$0100a8c0@p7>, > wrote AMI thusly... > > > > How I can to choose and change Window Manager under X? FreeBSD 4.5 > > STABLE distributive set it as twm desktop as default. And can I > > create several runnable desksides for using X, for instance, KDE, > > Gnome, AfterStep, gwm and other and load their alternately? > > there are at least two ways to do it. > > 1- configure each & every wm to switch to other wm's. then, use > each wm's restart like function to change wm. in fvwm2, it > is the "Restart" function... > > Restart > > 2- in ~/.xinitrc, start your first wm in background & any other > program (which you want to keep until you quit X all together) in > foreground... > > fvwm2 & > rclock > > ...then, in the primary window/desktop/pager, in xterm, kill > fvwm2 and start any other wm. this is the way i do it. > > ....some people would suggest using some sort of *-session program > which i used exactly once. > > then, i reverted to the 1st method for some time, but tvtwm doesn't > allow any other wm to be restarted. in addition, some wm's allow > only the program name to be specified but not any other arguments, > say non standard configuration file. the 2d method is very flexible > and i use it currently. > > > - parv > > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message