change desktop manager from command line
 

Hey !

Got a problem. I have gnome over red hat 8.0. I executed the desktop switching tool and changed to twm to "see" that desktop manager. Surprisingly, i can do almost nothuing from there and i want to go back to gnome.

Does someone know some command of the terminal to switch the desktop manager ?

thanks.

Logout, then login again into Gnome. If you run X via startx from the console instead of a graphical logon, you can use xwmconfig to set the default window manager.

in what directory is xwmconfig??

(i get command not found)

You might have to be root to run it, or it might not be in RH. If not, you may need to edit the ~/.xinitrc file. Take a look at this:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...runlevels.html

couldn't do it.

"One important script in this directory is xinput, which configures settings such as the default language to use and the desktop environment to start from (/etc/sysconfig/desktop). "

i saw /etc/sysconfig/desktop and it says DESKTOP="GNOME". So it should load gnome, shouldn't it?

isn't there some like XF86Config but to set up the default desktop?

~/.xinitrc is what sets up the default desktop. From what I read, the xinitrc calls another file which specifies what window manager to run. I think its called '.Xclients'. If you're trying to run Gnome, make sure the file runs 'gnome-session' instead of twm.

FIXED ! !

all i had to do was execute "swithdesk" in xterm and choose gnome again !

thanks for the support.

FYI, as far as I know xwmconfig is only a slackware thang.

(if I'm wrong about this feel free to flame me :D )