Re: Xmonad usage.

[Anthony Campbell]

On 25 Jan 2013, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
 
 Switching the WM with update-alternatives struck me as better 
 for a novice reading http://wiki.debian.org/Xmonad .
 


With the method you give on the wiki you have to log out and in again to
swap the WM. I prefer to have two different WMs running simultaneously
and swap between them with Alt-Shift-F8 and Alt-Shift-F7. I have a
little script which launches an alternative WM (icewm in my case):


# switch to icewm
xinit  /home/ac/.xxinitrc -- :1 



Where .xxinitrc is my usual .xinitrc altered to launch icewm.

Actually, I use spectrwm instead of xmonad (avoids haskell) but the
same method applies. I seem to remember that ratpoison has the inbuilt
optio to swap window managers.

The reason I have this arrangement is that although I like tiling WMs
none of them works very well with programs that open a lot of windows,
like xsane and gimp. A stacking WM is better for these.


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Xmonad usage.

[peasthope]

*   From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com
*   Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:57:03 -0600
 So the priority doesn't matter and the best doesn't matter.
 ... you successfully switched the symlink.

I've added instructions about alternative window managers to 
http://wiki.debian.org/Xmonad .

 When doing things like that with the window manager I usually start a
 terminal first.  I like xterm.  Then in xterm I would kill the
 previous window manager and then start the second.

Switching the WM with update-alternatives struck me as better 
for a novice reading http://wiki.debian.org/Xmonad .

   $ ps -e | grep openbox
   $ kill $OPENBOXPID
   $ nohup xmonad /dev/null ~/.xsession-errors 21 

That gave an xmonad process and killed the terminal window; 
but no response to Alt+Shift+Enter.

   $ disown

With the terminal gone I didn't pursue that.

I'm interested in criticism of http://wiki.debian.org/Xmonad 
and won't complain if someone improves my addition.

Regards,   ... Peter E.

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