On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:16:01PM +1300, Barry wrote:
> A while ago I set up my Mandrake8.2 to automatically start Icewm.
> I have now decided to revert to a runlevel 3 startup so I can start a 
> selected  wm with 'startx','startx icewm' or 'startx kde'. Now only 
> icewm will start irrespective of the command given.

aren't you using a loginmanager (like kdm)?
it has a menu to choose your desired window manager at login.

the problem with 'startx kde' not working is most likely that there
maybe no command 'kde'. kde is name of the whole environment, not of the
program starting it.

greetings, martin.
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