Try a search on Freshmeat for "guichooser". With guichooser, you begin
with startx and then you have a choice of the wm's you have installed.
"Ty C. Mixon" wrote:
>
> Looking over this older e-mail, I see how I could manually switch my
> default WM, but how can I set it so that I can start any WM I want by
> entering the right command.
>
> I'm thinking of something like this -
> startx for 'default' (kde in Mandrake)
>
> AS for AfterStep
>
> black for blackbox
>
> etc, ad nausem.
>
> TIA :) And happy T-Day to the Americans. :)
>
> Ty
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> On 11/17/99, 7:32:28 AM, "Sean Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Blackbox:
>
> > >Hello Blackbox Users,
> > >
> > >I was impressed by the supporting comments for blackbox, so I
> installed
> > >it with KDE enabled.
> > >
> > >Here is the dumb question. I read the install and run notes but
> nothing
> > >tells me how to actually start it ie get it on my desktop. Has the
> > >install not worked or am I missing something obvious?
> > >
> > >Please be kind.
> > >--
> > >Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA
> > >Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first.
> > >
> > I just changed my Xclients file to read:
>
> > #!/bin/bash
> > kpanel &
> > kfm -d &
> > /usr/local/bin/blackbox
>
> > Of course you don't have to add the lines kpanel & and kfm -d &, I
> added
> > these so that the desktop icon for kde and the kpanel would appear.
> These
> > are my own tastes. The blackbox binary was located in my
> /usr/local/bin
> > file. Make sure that you place the bsetroot bin somewhere where the
> OS can
> > access it ie. /bin . Then just save this to your Xclients file,
> remember to
> > back up the original Xclients file in case something goes wrong. Then
> just
> > run startx from the command line prompt and you will be on you way.
> > left/right clicking the desktop will pull up the blackbox menu, which
> > probably needs to be edited to work properly with your system (..very
> easy
> > to do), or the iconify menu.
> > Have fun, and spread the word. Blackbox is the fastest and easiest to
> > modify GUI out there.
>
> > SA
