Dan Hitt dan.h...@gmail.com wrote:
This is a sort of subquery to the question of how to change window
managers. (And thanks again Johan, Camaleón, and Indulekha for your
earlier help.)
So the question is: supposing you compile a window manager yourself,
so that it does not come from the
Thanks Indulekha and Johan for the suggestions.
Indulekha, making a package is an intriguing idea, but
probably too ambitious for me at the moment.
Johan, your net is much more suggestive than mine :)
I did google around but didn't see that method.
There's also apparently yet another way, which
This is a sort of subquery to the question of how to change window
managers. (And thanks again Johan, Camaleón, and Indulekha for your
earlier help.)
So the question is: supposing you compile a window manager yourself,
so that it does not come from the packaging system.
What is the standard
2012-04-30 05:36, Dan Hitt skrev:
This is a sort of subquery to the question of how to change window
managers.
So the question is: supposing you compile a window manager yourself,
so that it does not come from the packaging system.
What is the standard best way of setting this new window
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:36:09 -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
I'm running debian 6.0.4 (squeeze).
I'm attempting to change my window manager from the default metacity to
wmaker (WindowMaker).
I attempted the change by
sudo update-alternatives --display x-window-manager
and then choosing the
Thanks Camaleón and Johan for your suggestions.
For reference, here's what happened:
Camaleón: i did try the update-alternatives path, including the
--display option to check. It reports wmaker, but has no
effect otherwise that i can tell.
The idea of choosing a window manager a login time is
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 02:10:03PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
Thanks Camaleón and Johan for your suggestions.
For reference, here's what happened:
Camaleón: i did try the update-alternatives path, including the
--display option to check. It reports wmaker, but has no
effect otherwise that i
On 04/25/2012 05:10 PM, Dan Hitt wrote:
Thanks Camaleón and Johan for your suggestions.
For reference, here's what happened:
Camaleón: i did try the update-alternatives path, including the
--display option to check. It reports wmaker, but has no
effect otherwise that i can tell.
The idea of
Dan Hitt dan.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks in advance for any other advice anybody may have.
(Is anybody actually using WindowMaker on this list? Maybe
my problem is i'm posting to the wrong list? :) But thanks
everybody for your help because you certainly are very helpful!)
I was using
Thanks Rob, Wayne, and Indulekha for your help (and thanks
again Johan and Camaleón for your earlier help).
Rob, thanks for pointing out where the window manager
selection was on the screen (in my case, at the bottom,
and as you said, only visible after the user account is
selected).
That
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
Indulekha --- if you would care to answer --- what is the software that
wmaker does not interact well with?
I had trouble with terminator (my preferred terminal emulator) and also
with conky, which I use insted of a dock or system tray.
Bear in mind, I
I'm running debian 6.0.4 (squeeze).
I'm attempting to change my window manager from the default metacity
to wmaker (WindowMaker).
I attempted the change by
sudo update-alternatives --display x-window-manager
and then choosing the wmaker alternative.
When i run
update-alternatives
2012-04-25 06:36, Dan Hitt skrev:
I'm running debian 6.0.4 (squeeze).
I'm attempting to change my window manager from the default metacity
to wmaker (WindowMaker).
I attempted the change by
sudo update-alternatives --display x-window-manager
and then choosing the wmaker alternative.
I
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:48:42PM +0200, Thomas Jollans wrote:
Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote:
Sorry if the question is stupid, but: What is a session manager, and how
does it
get involved?
THX
AFAIK the session manager is a program that
a) starts the programs of a desktop env (gnome
Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote:
Sorry if the question is stupid, but: What is a session manager, and how does it
get involved?
THX
AFAIK the session manager is a program that
a) starts the programs of a desktop env (gnome needs
nautilus,metacity,gnome-panel and maybe more)
b) starts certain
Larry Fletcher on 08/09/05 02:51, wrote:
I don't use a desktop.
It takes about 3 seconds for startx to launch icewm using
icewm-session in either ~/.xsession or x-session-manager.
I used to use metacity (default with sarge) and it took 10 seconds
maybe, and then I tried using others and it
David Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:56:00PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
.xsession or .xinitrc
Not sure what the difference between those two files are.
.xinitrc is invoked by xinit. startx invokes xinit.
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:19:32PM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote:
After looking around some more I found out the x-session-manager works
for startx, but it's not updated when new window
Joachim Fahnenmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry if the question is stupid, but: What is a session manager, and
how does it get involved?
A window manager allows you to move and resize windows, iconify them,
and so on.
A session manager remembers which windows (applications) were open and
Larry Fletcher on 06/09/05 21:19, wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote:
After looking around some more I found out the x-session-manager works
for startx, but it's not updated when new window managers are
installed.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Larry Fletcher on 06/09/05 21:19, wrote:
Okay. Now I see there is a difference between a session
manager and a window manager. Apparently some window managers
have session managers and need them to run properly and some
window managers don't use
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote:
After looking around some more I found out the x-session-manager works
for startx, but it's not updated when new window managers are
installed. The x-session-manager updates:
Larry Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I have been using icewm for about 5 years, but I have been
| having problems since I upgraded to sarge. So I decided
| to try another window manager, but I can't figure out how
| to get xwindows to use the new window manager. I have
| searched google
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 06:35:44PM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote:
I have been using icewm for about 5 years, but I have been
having problems since I upgraded to sarge. So I decided
to try another window manager, but I can't figure out how
to get xwindows to use the new window manager. I have
Larry Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I seems like I remember that years ago all you had to do
put the name of window manager at the top of some file,
but I can't find anything like that.
Can someone please help me?
.xsession or .xinitrc
Not sure what the difference between those two
John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
.xsession or .xinitrc
Not sure what the difference between those two files are.
.xinitrc is invoked by xinit. startx invokes xinit.
.xsession is read by xdm. (And I think by other foodm programs, too,
such as kdm, gdm.)
Kai
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:56:00PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
.xsession or .xinitrc
Not sure what the difference between those two files are.
.xinitrc is invoked by xinit. startx invokes xinit.
.xsession is read by xdm. (And I think by
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote:
After looking around some more I found out the x-session-manager works
for startx, but it's not updated when new window managers are
installed. The x-session-manager updates:
/etc/alternatives/@x-session-manager
Why should the
On 9/4/2005 7:10:07 PM, Larry Fletcher wrote:
I have been using icewm for about 5 years, but I have been
having problems since I upgraded to sarge. So I decided
to try another window manager, but I can't figure out how
to get xwindows to use the new window manager. I have
searched google and
Thanks a lot, that fixed the problem.
From: DGLU [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/home/username/rm .gnome2/session
then logout, log back in
This will fix your problem
From: Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Missing step:
/home/username/rm .gnome2/session
then logout, log back in. This will fix your
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:37:27AM +0530, Soumyadip Modak wrote:
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:41, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
Try editing the /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default gconf
setting.
Use gconf-editor to do it.
Tried it just now, and restarted the x server. Still
I've Sawfish running as the window manager for Gnome 2.4. I intend to
use Metacity. I installed Metacity (i'm running Debian, so i apt-get
install-ed it), but now i can't find a way to make Gnome use Metacity
instead of Sawfish. Googling around posted 2 possible solutions :
1 Use metacity
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:04 +0530, Soumyadip Modak wrote:
I've Sawfish running as the window manager for Gnome 2.4. I intend to
use Metacity. I installed Metacity (i'm running Debian, so i apt-get
install-ed it), but now i can't find a way to make Gnome use Metacity
instead of Sawfish.
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:41, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
Try editing the /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default gconf setting.
Use gconf-editor to do it.
Tried it just now, and restarted the x server. Still doesn't work. ps ax
still shows sawfish running, even though gconf show
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Isn't it The Debian Way to do:
# update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
Only if you want to change the default for everyone on your system.
If you're the only user of your machine and don't want to edit
.xsession/.xinitrc, it's fine, but if you have
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 21:11, Damien Solley wrote:
Looks like X is running fine. You just need a window manager other than
twm!
from a console, edit your ~/.xinitrc file. For simplicity, this file can
have just one line, reading:
startkde
That'll start kde (if it's installed
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 21:11, Damien Solley wrote:
Looks like X is running fine. You just need a window manager other than
twm!
from a console, edit your ~/.xinitrc file. For simplicity, this file can
have just one line, reading:
startkde
That'll start kde (if it's installed
On Monday 11 August 2003 4:39 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
[...]
Isn't it The Debian Way to do:
# update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
Now that's useful. I was able to select icewm. A bit clumsy, but at least it
runs. Mozilla, qcad, gimp, gnumeric, abiword (not used it before, but if OO
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