XDM can also do this, although to be honest I've never used XDM, only KDM
and GDM.
There's info in the handbook here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html
I prefer KDM or GDM to handle this task - it launches a GUI (based on QT
or GTK depending on which tool you use
You also have selectwm.
$cat /usr/ports/x11-wm/selectwm/pkg-descr
This is a small application (using GTK+) which lets you select your window
manager. It looks for a file named .selectwmrc in the user's directory
which contains a list of window managers.
When you start X it should show a list whic
Hello Jesse,
This message is an elaboration of Polytron's comment about starting different
desktop environments/window managers using ~/.xinitrc. I like this particular
approach as DE/WM can have its own customized setup which will not interfere
with the other environments. Also it is
Jesse Feinman wrote:
I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would
like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop
environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting.
The primary purpose for this is to gain complete
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:17:51 -0400, Jesse Feinman
wrote:
> I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would
> like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop
> environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Jesse Feinman wrote:
> I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would
> like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop
> environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting.
Resta
I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would
like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop
environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting.
The primary purpose for this is to gain complete functionality over the
system