Selecting a window manager

Serge de Souza serge at cs.curtin.edu.au
Thu Dec 2 08:40:51 UTC 2004


Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
<snip>
>  Having to simultaneously kill one WM 
> while starting up another on the command line seems so twentieth 
> century.  I have a hunch this might be as much a political issue as a 
> technical issue, but I could be wrong. :-)


I select my WM by setting the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable before 
  I startx (from runlevel 3)


>  Are there any FC3 users 
> who are still using sawfish without hassle?


Yup, I just installed the FC2 package of sawfish and it works fine so I 
haven't even tried to recompile it from source for FC3.

Serge





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