changing the Window Manager in RH9

[jrbishop79]

I'm using RH9 running Gnome, and I've downloaded and installed IceWM. What I want to know is how do I go about changing my window manager from the default Bluecurve to IceWM in Gnome?

[Nuada Storm]

The easiest way is that if you have your runlevel set to 5, select IceWM from the session menu when you log in.

[do_guh_new]

of course if it's not in your session menu when you log in do the following: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65583 just simply change fluxbox to whatever WM you feel like using, I've got about 15 window managers on my dropdown menu all by do this.

[jrbishop79]

thanks for the link... that really helped!

[do_guh_new]

thanks for saying thanks, glad I could help ya out.

[fatTrav]

redhat nine

i've followed the links on this thread to add a window manager to the drop down list ( i want sawfish) and that part works. however, when i tell it to log in using sawfish it just kinda hangs/sits at a black screen for ages. nothing happens.

i am not sure if i am using gdm,xdm or anything else. i've ps-aux | grepped for gdm and xdm adn they come up as negative. anyone else have these problems with redhat nine?

travis

[do_guh_new]

wow good searching, however I can't help ya out as sawfish does the same exact thing for me too.

[fatTrav]

it seems that redhat 9 uses metacity as the default window manager. even when i disable this and tell it to use gdm, sawfish won't work.

oh well, i found a work around to what i wanted to do anyway. thanks for all the (existing) help

travis