On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 10:37:19PM +0530, USM Bish wrote:
   > 
   > Don't think you need to go through a GUI login merely for a WM
   > change. There is no need for "writing some files  and deleting
   > some" .. There is usually only one line to edit in ~/.xinitrc,
   > and this is the recommended way of doing things.  When  you go
   > through all sorts of tools for such stuff, invariably you land
   > up in a situation where you don't know what is going on ! Much
   > better to do things by hand.
   > 

If you are running debian, then do an apt-get install selectwm. Else
download the same from  http://ordiluc.net/selectwm/

Put the exec selectwm in your ~/.xinitrc. You are presented with a menu
of available wm's on your machine. Yes, it looks up them for you. 

Regards,

-- 
Sridhar M.A.

I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no
semantics.  :-(
             -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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