Solor Vox wrote:
> The problem is (gnome|kde)-session  is the parent that spawns all
> sub-processes, including metacity/compiz/etc WM that you want to replace.
> Furthermore, the login manager, usualy gdm, spawns the session inside an
> xinit process.  So you'll most likely end of up killing your X server and
> everything else after login.  What you can do is use "--replace" to
> gracefuly replace the WM instead of killing the session.  If your window
> manager supports that it of course, but many do.

With which program do I use "--replace"?

> The recommended way is to change your prefered DE/WM using the gdm.  Look
> for the options button on the login screen.  However, I don't know if they
> enabled that on their systems.

I am pretty sure they are using GDM, and there is a choice between GNOME and
KDE, but no way (that I am aware of) to specify anything else.

Thanks,
Aidan Gauland

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