Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager
On Sunday 01 Feb 2004 4:15 am, Lee B. wrote: When using VNC KDE always loads. I would like to try IceWM and use it with VNC. Perhaps if I set the default window manager to be IceWM, then VNC will load it? If so, can someone tell me how to set the default window manager? Thanks. You should have a hidden file in your home directory called ~/.vnc/xstartup This file controls how the vnc session will start Put the line /usr/X11R6/bin/starticewm in there and vnc should start IceWM derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:15:53 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: When using VNC KDE always loads. I would like to try IceWM and use it with VNC. Perhaps if I set the default window manager to be IceWM, then VNC will load it? If so, can someone tell me how to set the default window manager? On the server, there should be a file ~/.vnc/xstartup. Just edit it to start whatever desktop/WM you want. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth...-- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing television news Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:15:53 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: When using VNC KDE always loads. I would like to try IceWM and use it with VNC. Perhaps if I set the default window manager to be IceWM, then VNC will load it? If so, can someone tell me how to set the default window manager? On the server, there should be a file ~/.vnc/xstartup. Just edit it to start whatever desktop/WM you want. OK, here's whats in it. I don't see anything indicating KDE. What do I change? #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc I looked in xinitrc and it isn't clear either... no indication of which desktop or wm its loading. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:36:28 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: On the server, there should be a file ~/.vnc/xstartup. Just edit it to start whatever desktop/WM you want. OK, here's whats in it. I don't see anything indicating KDE. What do I change? #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc I looked in xinitrc and it isn't clear either... no indication of which desktop or wm its loading. Just replace 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' with whatever command runs IceWM. Or you could load up Pekwm on that sucker, and it'd really fly over VNC ;-) -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. -- Jesus Christ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:36:28 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: On the server, there should be a file ~/.vnc/xstartup. Just edit it to start whatever desktop/WM you want. Just replace 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' with whatever command runs IceWM. I tried using these ~/.vnc/xstartup: exec startx icewm startx icewm Neither worked, grey screen w/X cursor. I'm afraid thats the only way I know to start icewm or any wm from the command line. Maybe I should try pekwm... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:57:23 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: Just replace 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' with whatever command runs IceWM. I tried using these ~/.vnc/xstartup: exec startx icewm startx icewm You don't need the startx. IIANM, just put 'exec icewm'. Neither worked, grey screen w/X cursor. I'm afraid thats the only way I know to start icewm or any wm from the command line. Maybe I should try pekwm... Not as user-friendly as IceWM, but fast and very configurable. Also check out XFCE4. Probably a little lighter than IceWM, beotch to install until Charles gets his urpmi repository back up, tho. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.-- Archbishop Helder Camara Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
