[SOLVED] Standard Slackware utility to install a new DE from among those available in this distribution?

stf92 · 08-26-2017, 06:49 PM

Slackware 14.1

Hi: I'm at present using Xfce 4, the Cholesterol desktop environment (DE). When I have wanted to use some other DE instead, I have run a program from the console, whose name I cannot now remember (and this is the reason of this post, to get that name), and just have the program select the new DE. I simply deletes a soft link and creates a new one in a certain directory, doing perhaps some other thing. If you need further data I will promptly supply them.

Richard Cranium · 08-26-2017, 06:56 PM

https://docs.slackware.com/slackware...window_manager

Or xwmconfig

stf92 · 08-26-2017, 07:04 PM

xwmconfig, yes, thanks a lot. Just after having posted I found the name in a file of mine. I knew I could find the name somewhere on disk but did not know how much time I would be employing. So, I reversed the natural order and posted first.

By the way, I have just changed, through xwmconfig, from Xfce to KDE, I have rebooted just in case and however still with Xfce in the GUI! Any suggestion?

Gerard Lally · 08-26-2017, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by stf92

By the way, I have just change, through xwmconfig, from Xfce to KDE, I have rebooted and however still with Xfce in the GUI! Any suggestion?

Do you perhaps have a custom ~/.xinitrc ?

RadicalDreamer · 08-26-2017, 07:23 PM

Did you do it while logged in as the user you wish to set the DE to KDE?

stf92 · 08-26-2017, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Gerard Lally

Do you perhaps have a custom ~/.xinitrc ?

I'm attaching the one on root's home dir and the one on regular user bill's home dir. Perhaps you could tell me for I really do not know if they are custom. Thanks a lot for asking.

But doesn't xwmconfig create itself that file? What if I delete them?

EDIT: I ran xwmconfig as root. I thought the change would be system wide. After that I resumed as a regular user. That's what happened.

Gerard Lally · 08-26-2017, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by stf92

But doesn't xwmconfig create itself [~/.xinitrc]?

Indeed it does. My mistake.

stf92 · 08-26-2017, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by RadicalDreamer

Did you do it while logged in as the user you wish to set the DE to KDE?

I first shutdown X for all users, root included. Then I went to a root console and ran the utility, while a second (regular) user was also logged in. The mistake is explained in post # 6. Thanks for posting.

Didier Spaier · 08-27-2017, 02:37 AM

[dummy post sent by mistake, please disregard]

stf92 · 08-27-2017, 03:17 AM

How do you do, Didier? Two or three days ago I sent you a privete message. Did you not receive it?

Didier Spaier · 08-27-2017, 05:01 AM

I received your message, but I don't have a useful answer.

I can just guess that the Slackware package aspell-es in /extra/aspell-word-lists includes all Spanish words but I have no idea how to extract a sorted list of words from it.