Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.nacamar.de!Frankfurt.Germany.EU.net!Stuttgart.Germany.EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Man, etc. Date: 13 Mar 1997 13:56:28 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Message-ID: <5g912c$aj6@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <33269C1A.43D7@dimail.epfl.ch> <5g6dj4$3se$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <3327B501.6029@dimail.epfl.ch> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Lines: 21 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.amiga:15212 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5631 Fabien Wernly <fwernly@dimail.epfl.ch> wrote: > actually I meant how to change the manager while running another, > i.e. how to change from fvwm2 to fvwm95 etc. You can at most have one window manager running per display at a time. If the window manager is also your session leader (i.e., the last entry in the .xsession file, run by exec'ing it over the xsession shell), you can't change it unless the window manager itself allows you to overlay itself (with another exec) by something else. fvwm does offer this option. If you chose something else as your session leader (i usually pick an xconsole for this purpose), you only need to exit (or kill) the original window manager, and start another one (e.g. from within an xterm). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j