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Old 11-25-2006, 02:03 PM   #1
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Different window managers? (for KDE & Blackbox)


I've installed Mandriva 2007 on my new laptop and i like it a lot, especially the Compiz 3d desktop, really cool to show off what Linux can do

But it also has a downside, it disables DRI, and i need DRI for Google Earth and games...

So I installed Blackbox, so i can go into that instead of KDE when i want to play games.

Now, my question is, how do I tell Blackbox to use another windowmanager than the compiz one?

For KDE i just do "startx", but when i do "startx blackbox" there is still no DRI...
 
Old 11-25-2006, 11:41 PM   #2
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Here are a couple of pages I found about using different window managers from within kde. I don't know if it will help you but I tried it and I can switch between kwin and icewm in kde without problems.

http://developer.kde.org/~seli/kdewm/

http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?p...cks&pagenum=20
 
  


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