Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager

2002-02-17 Thread Chris Keelan
Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:38:13 -0700: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, JSheble [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: So what do I need to do to get Blackbox running as my defauly WindowManager so I can check it out, then switch back to Gnome when I want to??? If you're using the

Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager

2002-02-17 Thread shane
not really what you are asking, but a Cool Thing that might help. from your current manager, do a ctrl alt F6 (or F whatever ya want) to get a different term and login. then type xinit -- :1 this starts another instance of X windows, it will run on F8 while your original was on F7 (i

RE: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager

2002-02-17 Thread JSheble
Thank you, this did what I needed... So what do I need to do to get Blackbox running as my defauly WindowManager so I can check it out, then switch back to Gnome when I want to??? If you're using the 'startx' approach instead of gdm/kdm, I don't think you can change WMs on the fly (although

Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager

2002-02-17 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 11:38, JSheble wrote: Just out of curiosity I thought I'd take a look at some of the other WindowManagers that come with LM8.1. I did not originally install them when I installed LM though. So using the Software Manager in the Mandrake Control Center I installed

Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager

2002-02-17 Thread Bill Davidson
On Sunday 17 February 2002 04:06 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 11:38, JSheble wrote: Just out of curiosity I thought I'd take a look at some of the other WindowManagers that come with LM8.1. I did not originally install them when I installed LM though. So using the

Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager

2002-02-17 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
its really amazing that few people know about the small package Xtart. it allows you to choose your WM from the commandline. i like it better than booting to runlevel 5 (GUI) to select my WM. its in the installation CDs or you could just search it from rpmfind as it is a little file. I just