That is a bad idea to kill the session of either of those DE. (Desktop Environment, not just Window Managers)
The problem is (gnome|kde)-session is the parent that spawns all sub-processes, including metacity/compiz/etc WM that you want to replace. Furthermore, the login manager, usualy gdm, spawns the session inside an xinit process. So you'll most likely end of up killing your X server and everything else after login. What you can do is use "--replace" to gracefuly replace the WM instead of killing the session. If your window manager supports that it of course, but many do. The recommended way is to change your prefered DE/WM using the gdm. Look for the options button on the login screen. However, I don't know if they enabled that on their systems. Cheers, sV On 16 February 2010 22:10, Aidan Gauland <aidal...@no8wireless.co.nz> wrote: > Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Kill the window manager process, start a new one. > > OK, I'll try that. I tried that once on my system, and it terminated my X > session, but I'll fiddle around with this again. GNU Screen will make > experimentation with this easier than just an xterm. > > > UIDs are a fact of Unix, there's no way around. You missed the point > > that this has nothing to do with ext. You could try to make all > > files/directories writable by everyone. Decent Linux distros will assign > > the logged-in users UID as owner to FAT filesystems on removable > > storage, again, the no-frills-no-functions wms you're after probably > > won't do that. > > I realise that it is not ext specific, but a UNIX thing. I'll just go with > FAT, then. > > Thanks, > Aidan Gauland > >
