On Saturday 09 June 2001 04:45, Tom Woolley wrote: > I have my machine set to boot to runlevel 3. When starting X from the > command line, how do I get it to give me a list of window managers to > choose from rather than automatically starting the default window > manager? > > Thanks, > Tom "/usr/sbin/chksession -l" will give you a list of available window managers "startx ???" where ??? is one of the window managers from the list above, will start the desired window manager example on my system (you won't have all of these managers) [alex@homer alex]$ /usr/sbin/chksession -l KDE Gnome WindowMaker Enlightenment BlackBox XFce AfterStep IceWM Sawfish Fvwm2 Fvwm1 Sapphire Swm aewm2 ion alloywm swm aewm amiwm pwm mlvwm qvwm twm mwm Oroborus Golem default failsafe to start KDE, I would use "startx KDE" to start Gnome, I would use "startx Gnome" to start Sapphire, I would use "startx Sapphire" -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
