Martin Miller dixit: >pkill -9 metacity && dwm
In most environments, this will *not* work, as terminating the window manager will terminate your X session as well. >I've been given a laptop for work that's running Kubuntu. In the KDE >world is there something similar to metacity that I can kill so that I >can start dwm? Some OSes allow you to export WINDOWMANAGER or set the x-window-manager alternative using the alternatives system. KDE itself allows changing this in System Settings → Workspace Appearance and Behaviour → Default Applications. HTH & HAND, //mirabilos -- Gast: „Ein Bier, bitte!“ Wirt: „Geht auch alkoholfrei?“ Gast: „Geht auch Spielgeld?“
