Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On 14/1/2000 Jim B wrote: Basically it just puts it in /etc/X11/window-managers . The first in the list is the default. assuming you 1) have root and 2) want the change to be global rather then per user. Ethan

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-14 Thread Jim B
The correct way to install a new window manager is to use register-window-manager. register-window-manager --add /usr/local/bin/blah or register-window-manager --default /usr/local/bin/blah to make "blah" your default WM. Basically it just puts it in /etc/X11/window-managers . The first in th

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On 13/1/2000 John Pearson wrote: When your .xsession terminates, so does your session. The last program you start in your .xsession should *not* be put in the background like that, or you will exit before your WM has time to start. oops your right, I usually start xscreensaver and use the &

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-13 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 03:57:53PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote > On 12/1/2000 Guyren G Howe wrote: > > >But I can't work out how to get Afterstep to come up instead of KDE. Can > >someone tell me how to do this? All the explanations I've found go into > >gorey detail about compiling it, then say som

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-13 Thread David J. Kanter
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:58:25PM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote: > I'm a newbie at this. I figured I'd get started learning to customise all > this stuff by installing a new Window Manager. I like the look of AfterStep > (one of its skins in particular), so I've downloaded all the relevant bits. > >

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On 12/1/2000 Guyren G Howe wrote: But I can't work out how to get Afterstep to come up instead of KDE. Can someone tell me how to do this? All the explanations I've found go into gorey detail about compiling it, then say something like "and then you install it". add a .xsession to your home di

How to install new Window manager

2000-01-12 Thread Guyren G Howe
I'm a newbie at this. I figured I'd get started learning to customise all this stuff by installing a new Window Manager. I like the look of AfterStep (one of its skins in particular), so I've downloaded all the relevant bits. But I can't work out how to get Afterstep to come up instead of KDE. Can