quickie: howto? window manager & xterms, but no kde/gnome/xfce
Andy Harrison
aharrison at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 19:02:42 UTC 2007
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On 7/23/07, Steve Franks wrote:
> I'm not totally opposed to what comes up in X if you start with no
> .xinitrc, but it's a tad ugly. I'd ideally like to have a nifty
> window manager, like one of those new 3d ones, but I find no point in
> running kde/gnome/xfce - I launch everything (firefox, etc.) from a
> prompt anyway. So howto? I presume I just have to put some things
> instead of "exec xfce-session" in my .xinitrc? Is there a guide to
If you're going to try beryl/aixgl, it would probably suffice just to
put 'exec beryl-manager' in your .xinitrc file, but I'm guessing
really. I've never run beryl without kde behind it. Although I
*have* had kde fail to start completely/correctly and I beryl still
ran fine.
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Andy Harrison
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