Switching window managers

[Jeepsta]

Currently I boot to the command prompt and if I want X then I just type "startx" and off I go. I am currently using KDE2 as my window manager but I wanted to try some of the other ones I got here. The only way I know how to do this is to switch to runlevel 5 and choose there. Is there a better (easier) way to do this?

Zach

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[cabu1966]

i do it this way:

WINDOWMANAGER=wmaker; startx

instead of wmaker insert whatever windowmanager you are going to use.

[Stackrat]

I depends on your distro. Slackware has the "xwmconfig" utility for this purpose. I don't know about the others, its been a while since I switched to Slack.

[Gaccm]

most idstros have a ~/.xinitrc (something like that) and you gotta edit that file with startkde to get it to work, just wipe it and do whatever the GUI says to do (most some to have: exec wmname)

[Jeepsta]

I was just wondering if there was a way to change it on the fly. Like type something like startx -kde or something to that effect.

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[ovf]

The KDE help documentation has a useful description of how to choose a window manager using kdm at runlevel 5. If you don't want to boot to runlevel 5 you could boot to the CLI and start kdm manually or you could write a small shell script to set the window manager environment variable then start xwindows via startx.