Aidan Gauland wrote, On 16/02/10 21:01:
I am about to start university next week, and I do not like either KDE or
GNOME, which is all that is available in Canterbury's C.S. computer labs. I
would like to put my favourite window manager on my memory stick, and run it
in place of the one into which I login.
This raises two problems: how do I switch window managers within an X session
(without terminating the X session)? And what filesystem can I put on my
memory stick that is more UNIX friendly than FAT, but that does not have the
ext filesystems' problem of confusing the system that mounts it when moving
between systems with different UIDs?
These are, of course, not huge issues, but I would like to figure this out at
some point.
Buy a laptop and use that instead. You can do whatever you want on your
own box.
Of course, you might not be allowed to connect it to the cosc network.
Better check the aup.
I vaguely remember running afterstep as a window manager on the old sun
3/50. I had the binary statically compiled in my home directory and it
worked fairly well. Depends how much of your profile is automatically
generated. (mush!)
--
Craig Falconer
