Your WM of choice. So it would be something like compiz --replace &, metacity --replace &, twm --replace &, etc. Adding the & to run in the background. Be aware if you close the shell it will kill the WM. To prevent this you should run "disown %1" after running your WM command. That way the shell doesn't kill your WM when if close the terminal window.
If you don't want any of the gnome environment, then you may be able to select "failsafe with xterm" or similar. This will drop you into a plain xterm where you can run your WM of choice. I'd recommend putting a copy in your home folder since your usb drive won't work nicely without gnome/dbus/etc. Cheers, sV On 17 February 2010 07:48, Aidan Gauland <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
