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From: Randy Westlund <rwestlun@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] startx with multiple window managers
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:39:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130823173945.GA12254@artifex> (raw)

I'm looking for a better way to manage multiple WMs.

I launch X with startx.  I also use multiple window managers.  I'm primarily on xmonad because I love tiling WMs, but I also keep xfce around for whever I developing a GUI or letting my fiancee use my machine.  My procedure for starting multiple managers is this:

- log in
- startx
- login on tty2
- edit .xinitrc (shown below)
- startx -- :1

.xinitrc goes from:

> exec xmonad
> #exec startxfce4

to:
> #exec xmonad
> exec startxfce4

Then I can switch between tty7 and tty8 at will.  Usually I don't start xfce at all, but for the times when I do, I'd be nice to do this without editing a file.  Can I simplify this process?  Is there anyone else who uses multiple WMs?  How do you manage them?

Randy


             reply	other threads:[~2013-08-23 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-23 17:39 Randy Westlund [this message]
2013-08-23 18:29 ` [gentoo-user] startx with multiple window managers Willie
2013-08-23 20:47 ` Philip Webb
2013-08-23 21:15 ` Michael Mair-Keimberger
2013-08-24  4:56 ` the
2013-08-24 17:19 ` Willie WY Wong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-08-24  2:47 Thomas Mueller

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