On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:40:53 +1200, cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There *used* to be, in RedHat 7.2 or thereabouts, a 'Desktop switcher' app. It required a restart of X for it to take effect. But I can't seem to find it in Debian 3.0.
cr
I don't know how much this'll help, but I have three fully functional window managers/environments (a.k.a. IceWM, GNOME, KDE) that I run depending on my needs, and here's the file I use to switch between them:
$ more .Xclients-default exec icewm || exec xterm -fn 7x14 #exec startkde || exec xterm -fn 7x14 #exec gnome-session || exec xterm -fn 7x14 $
As you can probably tell, IceWM is my favorite.
BTW, `.Xclients-default' is actually called from another file, at least on my system:
$ more .Xclients #!/bin/bash
# Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher
if [ -e "$HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY" ]; then exec $HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY else exec $HOME/.Xclients-default fi $
I guess this is more flexible, but if you want, you could bypass the convolution and put your GNOME/KDE starting commands in `.Xclients'. These files are shell scripts, of course, and they are a feature of the X Window System.
The reason I'm bringing this up is that, seeing as controlling desktop environments/WMs is more of an X issue, people ought to know that there's a standard way they can do it in all distros, regardless of whether the command-line/graphical tools are available (or not). The standard (command-line and graphical) tool, is, of course, `switchdesk'. No surprise: `switchdesk' is itself (mostly) a shell script!
One last thing: I read in this thread that someone's been trying to use KDE's window manager with GNOME. Please save yourself the headache!
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