[RndTbl] re: switchdesk, RedHat, and WMs

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Thanks! I have decided to basically stick with the command line as the GUI under the sad
hardware I have on the machine 7.3 runs on is bad. Until I can find a decent video card
and maybe find a 15" monitor, I will just stay at the command line and learn from that
first. Thanks again for the help though, and I will put this all to good use just as soon
as I can get a better video setup.



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> From: "Sean A. Walberg" <sean at poochie.ertw.com>
> To: roundtable at muug.mb.ca
> Subject: switchdesk, RedHat, and WMs
>
> 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
>
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