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From: Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing the Window Manager
> You can run `desktopcfg` from the command-line, or (from KDE) click on the
> K Menu, then Utilities> Desktop Switching Tool. This will let you choose
> bewteen Gnome, KDE, and AnotherLevel. The command-line tool gives you a
> few more options.
>
> For even more control, you could just put the window manager directly in
> your .xinitrc file. If you're interested, I can explain it, but otherwise
> I don't want to take up bandwidth with a bunch of stuf nobody wants to
> read.
>
> -Matt Stegman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Steve Spiller wrote:
>
> > This may seem like a dumb question, but I have only run Linux-Mandrake
> > for 1 week. When I run startx, it automatically boots into KDE. This is
> > fine, but I would like to test the other Window Managers that I
> > installed. How do I use startx to boot into WindowMaker (for example)?
> >
>
>
Steve wants to know how to start a different window manager from the command
line, not from within KDE (or booting to initlevel 5).
Manny Styles
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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