On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:01:42AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 04:28:45PM +1100, James Buchanan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I run `startx' I would like afterstep to run, and I would like a
> > menu giving me a list of all the window managers/desktop environments
> > that I can run. How do I tell startx to run afterstep by default? I
> > have done `man startx' but it's all incomprehensible gibberish to me!
> > :-( I did look at xinitrc but again, I can't read shell scripts.
No not there. ~/.xsession :-)
> > None of it looks obvious to me unfortunately. Oh yes, apparently
> > Gnome is installed, but how do I run it?
>
> Systemwide:
>
> # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
I wish it is as simple. Since x-session-manager has priority over
x-window-manager, nothing really happens for the window manager.
x-session-manager loads its window manager (sawmill ...).
Anyway, Branden was going to review this mess of window/session manager
initialization soon. Anyway, it is non-trivial configuration to
understand. So many random codes by different packages :-( I was and I
am still confused.
> For your own use, make the following the last line of ~/.xsession
>
> exec afterstep
>
> ...and take a look at WindowMaker if you like Afterstep.
Yeh, ~/.xsession is the key on Debian.
Also one of the following are interesting.
exec wmaker # install wmaker, nice and clean
exec blackbox # install blackbox, very slick and light
exec fluxbox # install fluxbox, blackbox + nice tab thing
exec fcwm # install xfce, Mac OS-X like
exec icewm # install icewm, Light & windows like
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