[wplug] Newbie: KDE on Mandrake 7.2
Luquilla Hughes
luquilla at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 23 15:54:04 EDT 2001
In slackware there is a tool called xwmconfig and it will use ncurses to
give you a list of available WMs and the ability to set the .xinitrc file
for the user that runs xwmconfig. I don't know if this tool is specific to
slack.
Of course Zman's advice is the better way to go, you'll learn more.
>From: Zach Paine <zman at wplug.org>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: Re: [wplug] Newbie: KDE on Mandrake 7.2
>Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:50:28 -0400
>
>
>On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:27:00 "Farr, Aaron" wrote:
><snippers>
>
> > How do I change that to lauch some other desktop or windows manager?
>
>Edit the .xinitrc file in your home directory. Right now it probably says
>startkde (or the file doesn't exist yet). Put anything you want in there
>(ie. blackbox, wmaker, gnomes-session) and it will run on X startup.
>
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