choosing window manager

Gary Kline kline at tao.thought.org
Mon Mar 12 23:41:02 UTC 2007


On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:28:19PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote:
> Hi.
> 1) How do I start KDE / FVWM2/ GNOME / TWM / Windowmaker ?
>    ( I've choosed them during installation )
> 
> 2) Is there some nice "welcome" program,
>     that allows to choose a session kind ?
> 
> Dima.
> 
> On FreeBSD 6.2 i386,
> >startx    -- starts TWM
> 
> root> gdm   -- starts gnome desktop manager,
>   which allows to start only GNOME
> (I was used that it allows to launch any WM,
>  but in this case - only GNOME).



	A few years ago I created a ctwm.desktop (somewhere, I forget
	where), and was able to use GNOME || CTWM with gdm.  I cobbled
	together a kde.desktop and then was able to run KDE using gdm
	as well.  So gdm can be flexible.  

	gary



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