-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:41:31 -0500 (CDT) From: "Sean A. Walberg" <sean@poochie.ertw.com> To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca Subject: switchdesk, RedHat, and WMs Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206120931530.23666-100000@poochie.ertw.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII There was a discussion last night about how to switch around window managers/desktop environments, and which file did what. I just took a peek at a RH 7.3 box, and came to the following conclusions: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is run when X is started. This file first checks for the existance of ~/.Xclients. If it exists, it is run Failing that, /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients is run. However, if it doesn't exist, fvwm2 is tried, followed by twm (not really an issue in Red Hat) /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients makes its decision about which desktop to run based on /etc/sysconfig/desktop. The line PREFERRED=GNOME or PREFERRED=KDE will make the default windowing environment GNOME or KDE respectively. You could also do "PREFERRED=twm" to have twm the default Finally, switchdesk copies the appropriate file from /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/ into your ~/.Xclients (and doesn't modify /etc/sysconfig/desktop as I had originally thought, sorry). So, in a nutshell, the rough order of things is: ~/.Xclients (manual, or by switchdesk) /etc/sysconfig/desktop (if it exists) GNOME KDE afterstep|windowmaker|mmaker fvwm95|fvwm|fvwm2 mwm|lesstif twm Sean - -- Sean A. Walberg <sean@ertw.com> http://www.ertw.com Join the weekly cramsession.com Linux newsletter for news and resources! Archives and more info at http://www.ertw.com/~sean/newsletter -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9B12g/W5I7ZxUFj4RAh5jAJ9oyx9MPAltAffCkVZGIVMXZDD+2gCghgpF 3Ryn7eKEiPYRNfECpBi00c8= =IlM2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----