Re: Caldera Vs RH5

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From: David Stanaway
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 00:00

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Greg Dewar wrote:

> How easy is it to switch between Afterstep, KDE and other windows
> managers?
>
> G

After installing the window managers as per the instructions, and the package
format..

It should be as easy as keeping a shell script in your home dir.

~/.xsession

#!/bin/sh
# remove the hash infront of your wm of choice.
#exec afterstep
#exec fvwm
#exec twm
exec /opt/kde/bin/startkde

The config files for the different window managers can be a problem, but if
your Linux flavour is RH5 then they have set up plugin look and feel for
fvwm2 which emulate the appearance of a number of window managers, and it is
even easier.

If you read the docs on your window manager, or look at a few config files,
you will see that many support a restart function which is capable of
restarting another windowmanager.

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From: David Stanaway <dstanawa@ug.cs.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Caldera Vs RH5
Date: 1998/05/16
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