sean finney on 2 Nov 2006 07:07:55 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] changing window manager


On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 00:23 +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> For the alternatives to work, something has to try to exec a program
> named x-window-manager.  I am not sure anything actually ever calls
> x-window-manager, though, so that may be where this plan is falling
> apart.  Are you running gnome-session?  If so, there really is no choice
> at all but to (kill $(pidof $current_wm) && exec $new_wm).

at one of the labs where i have to work, they provide only a crappy
gnome-based redhat desktop, which i have no control over.  they used to
have a "custom xsession" option which would defer to .Xsession, but they
took that away over the summer for some reason.

*but*, if you pay attention to what goes in in /etc/X11, you'll find
that there are some config files that are unconditionally sourced if
they exist.  for example, on the redhat system a file called ~/.xprofile
is sourced, so i slipped in an "exec /path/to/fluxbox", and everything
went well from there :)  similarly on debian systems i think there
are a couple files you can probably abuse similarly, you just gotta
poke around a bit.


	sean

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