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. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130128093546.gi2...@acampbell.org.uk
