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On 19-Mar-2003 Haines Brown wrote: > Simon, > >> Hi, I think redhat has the "switchdesk" utility, you can choose whether >> it is for current session or permanent change. >> >> Give it a whirl. > > Thanks. RH8.0 indeed does have a destop switching tool, but it seems > to conflate desktop environments (gnome vs kde) and window managers > (WindowMaker vs. twm). This left me feeling uncomfortable. > > Since I'm planning a migration from RedHat to gentoo or debian, I > don't want to become reliant on gui utilities any more than I have > to. If I were to reconfigure the desktop switcher to recognize icewm, > I suspect it would be easier to modify a rc file to call icewm in > the first place. > > Haines Hello Haines,Im using IceWm as well from very few days and I simply run: xinit /usr/local/bin/icewm --:0 from terminal when I'am here on my RHL-7.3 box,or even run: icewm which contains #!/bin/sh startx /usr/local/bin/icewm --:0 exit 0 from my job companion Compaq E500 running RHL8.0 By the way suggested documentation contains a lot of stuff for a more deep customization of IceWM. Best Regards Marco -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+fOmas0ru0Kz1knARApA7AKCy4lgaDxzvVt/0wxdBZaBlPs4+HgCcCwi0 p2ztfJiohMrFiZVsqW+h9P8= =z+9V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
