From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGyMR-0000Yk-PM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:51:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBEDDE03E7; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:51:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f198.google.com (mail-yx0-f198.google.com [209.85.210.198]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B023CE03E7 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:51:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe36 with SMTP id 36so615853yxe.10 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:51:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=xQI5FBLTB2TLOhhxTBTCUxt57Rq45/DjloAx8qJ8H58=; b=tofse3+PY7KKEJijDAiZda678NGgsntGINvaOohpK/PN1gstaFU+qYZ5CtFJsGlftV NOmtAWTZHwmbrjKA+Bkg9KHsU/lAIUcHpLUMM3TcicpC73lP6/dMErt56nIdd6Lcr3Je o/5EtMpepXFG/Bc4bok9VkuWWm7opUlpYOyus= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JsVQS1gKGvDH6fHv4gr+56llC7PGCZis7qksogWYkzZ7rsIIMPIk5q6Pf2J35cHas7 NoQTDHb8XvtdOIOAgMznS1Y6euChkRzfTyoxCAdQsD0/sdDDxhgzZir+4TbLLmfFVAAo 5FMJ254zH1dqe2eoyn0WjR4XseT0uqL5YeReM= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.123.8 with SMTP id a8mr1558607ybn.175.1245257501420; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:51:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <5bdc1c8b0906170553w3b73c15ehd1b8cacaaf52c7c4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:51:41 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0906170951o414c9dccm8df51896fbb58fac@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I switch to a window manager? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8b66f41c-308f-48b3-9939-abf1d396f182 X-Archives-Hash: a7a716a57437e0ae2e80cfd6925b792c On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Steve Herber wrote: > Can somebody answer a question, related to the favorite WM question, how > do I change to an alternative window manager? > > I normally run xdm and update my .xinitrc or .xsession file to do this > but I feel that there should be a better way. =C2=A0How do you do it? > > Thanks, > > -- > Steve Herber =C2=A0 =C2=A0herber@thing.com =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0work: 206-221-7262 > Software Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services =C2=A0 =C2=A0 home: 425-454-2= 399 > > > I use gdm as a log in manager. On the bottom of the login screen there is a pull down that allows me to choose which one I want to run and whether to make it default or to only use it for this session. Hope this helps, Mark