Hello Jesse,
This message is an elaboration of Polytron's comment about starting different
desktop environments/window managers using ~/.xinitrc. I like this particular
approach as DE/WM can have its own customized setup which will not interfere
with the other environments. Also it is very
You also have selectwm.
$cat /usr/ports/x11-wm/selectwm/pkg-descr
This is a small application (using GTK+) which lets you select your window
manager. It looks for a file named .selectwmrc in the user's directory
which contains a list of window managers.
When you start X it should show a list
XDM can also do this, although to be honest I've never used XDM, only KDM
and GDM.
There's info in the handbook here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html
I prefer KDM or GDM to handle this task - it launches a GUI (based on QT
or GTK depending on which tool you
I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would
like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop
environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting.
The primary purpose for this is to gain complete functionality over the
system
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Jesse Feinman jesse.fein...@gmail.com wrote:
I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would
like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop
environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:17:51 -0400, Jesse Feinman jesse.fein...@gmail.com
wrote:
I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would
like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop
environments and easily switch between them, preferably without
Jesse Feinman wrote:
I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would
like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop
environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting.
The primary purpose for this is to gain complete
