Hello. I just worked this out myself:

to change window managers, you edit (or make from scratch) ~/.xinitrc (type: pico .xinitrc from your home directory) and enter one of the following options (depending on which window manager you want to use/have installed):

source /sw/bin/init.sh
exec gnome-session

*OR*

source /sw/bin/init.sh
exec enlightenment

*OR*

source /sw/bin/init.sh
sw/bin/startkde

then write out of pico by pressing <ctrl> o, <enter>, <ctrl> x

Then ... start X from the terminal using:

startx -- -fullscreen

I hope that works - that's how I do it anyway and it works. The information above is at the following two URLs: http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/run-xfree86.php (for gnome and enlightenment) and http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/kde.php (for KDE).

Cheers!
David Orlovich.


p.s. Fink Beginners might be a better list get get help on this sort of thing.


On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 07:45 AM, Heidi Shah wrote:

Hiya folks,

I've been trying to switch the default window manager that X uses and haven't had much luck. Might be some little OS X nuance I am missing. Can anyone point me to a functional set of X dot files that the know works with XDarwin and KDE (or the like) or just post the basic entries I need to put into my files to specify the window manager? TWM really sucks something awful.....

Thanks!

Heidi

BTW - I did compile KDE. It took freakin' forever so it would be nice to be able to use it finally!



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