Then how do I switch window managers midstream? I boot to a command prompt and when I hit startx, it loads Gnome. I want to use Window Maker. How do I switch to that? Valjean On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Mike Corbeil wrote: > Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > > "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: > > > > > > Matt Stegman wrote: > > > > > > > No, startx does not start kdm. startx will start X, and load kde by > > > > default, or another window manager - you can use any of several tools to > > > > change this. > > > > > > Qué? In Mandrake, startx gives you kdm. > > > > No, it doesn't. > > I think that what the person means is that Mandrake configured kde as the > default window manager and desktop. This may have been through a user choice > made during the installation process, or the default the Mandrake distribution > which was installed. > > To an unknowing user, this could cause startx to look like it gives kdm or kde > as the default. Only by reading documentation on this does a person realize > that startx only gives or brings up what it's instructed to do so, through > configuration files, e.g. ~/.Xclients. Without reading the documentation on > this process, many newbies to X and the wm's can easily think that startx is to > "blame". > > startx is a "front-end" and depends on configuration files, to know what to do. > > To learn about startx and configuring which wm's to use or have a choice of, > people need to read the documentation on this, or wait until someone repeats > it. > > True, startx doesn't decide what wm is to be used, but it can seem like it does > for people who don't know what's actually going on. > > mike > > >