Window MAnager change

varaahan · 08-16-2007, 11:49 AM

How to change the default window manager in a slackware based distro (eg: Absolute linux) ?
I tried editing /home/../.xinitrc but in vain.

cor67393 · 08-16-2007, 12:06 PM

You could run, as root, 'pkgtool', and select 'setup' there, followed by 'xwmconfig'.

I think this changes the symlink of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to the corresponding file in that directory. You could copy one of these to your home dir.

varaahan · 08-16-2007, 12:11 PM

I want to know which files are to be edited and I wud like to do it manually. In Arch I tried this once and was successful but I forgot what changes I made.

Anyhow I'll try your advice.

cor67393 · 08-16-2007, 12:14 PM

Your right, you have to edit .xinitrc. For kde, I have 'exec startkde' in there. Tab-completion with start should give you a couple of other options. Its just that in /etx/X11/xinit/ there are a couple of example file, and users without an xinitrc will read xinitrc from there.

varaahan · 08-16-2007, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cor67393

You could run, as root, 'pkgtool', and select 'setup' there, followed by 'xwmconfig'.

I ran just "xwmconfig" and selected the desired window manager and that fixed the issue.

cor67393 · 08-16-2007, 12:22 PM

Thanks! Forgot about that shortcut.

BCarey · 08-16-2007, 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by varaahan

I want to know which files are to be edited and I wud like to do it manually.

Look in the directory /etc/X11/xinit. You can see that xinitrc is just a link to a wm-specific xinitrc file. The link gets set by the xwmconfig script. You could use "diff" to see what the specific differences are for each window manager.

Brian

varaahan · 08-17-2007, 08:51 AM

My experimenation still goes.
After changing the WM to xfce, I ran once again xwmconfig to select icewm but I could not login thro GUI (Even as root ).
Finally tried editing /usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc and now i got it right.

Still learning as fun .