Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 17:46:22 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running 2+ window managers Message-ID: <20000624174621.B459@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <14676.6558.949570.732632@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 09:14:54PM -0500 References: <bulk.64383.20000623170234@hub.freebsd.org> <14676.6558.949570.732632@guru.mired.org>
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On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 09:14:54PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
>From: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net>
>> 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.
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