startx

[john_h]

Hello,

After installing Knoppix to hard
disk, it turned out that my old
P133 is a lazy dog with KDE/Gnome.

How can startx be modified to run
just a slim window manager?

Thanks!

john

[Dave_Bechtel]

--I tried decoding startx and got nowhere. SuSE 7.3's startx was awesome - just change variable $WINDOWMANAGER to whatever you want (even on the fly) and then startx.

For myself, I just put these lines in ~/.bashrc, and use ' sf ' to start sawfish: (the "#" lines are comments)

To find out where a windowmanager lives, use whereis. ' whereis icewm '

#alias wm='xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker &'
alias sf='xinit /usr/bin/sawfish & rxvt & '
#alias sg='xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome &'
alias ice='xinit /usr/bin/icewm & '
#alias kde='xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/kde &'

--Also see ' man startx '.

--Note: You will have to logout/login or ' source ~/.bashrc ' for the shell to see the alias changes.

Hello,

After installing Knoppix to hard
disk, it turned out that my old
P133 is a lazy dog with KDE/Gnome.

How can startx be modified to run
just a slim window manager?

Thanks!

john