[PLUG] KDE w/ something other than kwm?

[peter]

no, i was actually trying to use kde and have windowmaker be the window
manager instead of kwm, i like the menus in kde, but windowmaker is my
favorite window manager.. i actually figured out how to make it work, kind
of.. i logged in on a failsafe session, started wmaker, then started kde.
couldn't get it to work through the startup files, but it ended up being
so unbearably slow that i've given up on it anyway.. oh well..

thanks all!
peter

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Richard June wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, why don't you setup kdm to have WindowMaker in it's
> drop-down??? also I think if you use either failsafe or default it will
> drop through to your .xinitrc(kdm allows you to choose your environment)
> of course, from what I understand you are actually trying to use
> windowmaker instead of kde rather than in place of kwm
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, peter wrote:
> 
> > ran wmaker.inst, and had it set up ~/.xinitrc, then tried logging out and
> > back in, but kde came up like normal. took a look at .Xclients-default
> > (which is called from .Xclients) and that calls /usr/bin/startkde, so i
> > got rid of .Xclients-default, and linked it to .xinitrc, but when i logged
> > in this time, all i got was WindowMaker, with no trace of KDE.. 
> > 
> > what am i doing wrong?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > peter
> > 
> > On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Josh Guffin wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, peter wrote:
> > > 
> > > > i'm just now trying out KDE, since i just recently got a processor
> > > > upgrade, but i'd like to try using other window managers with it.. how can
> > > > i do that? i can't find any way to change the wm through kde's tools, and
> > > > ~/.wm_style still has WindowMaker in it, and i tried changing the last
> > > > line of /usr/bin/startkde from
> > > > 
> > > > sleep 2 ; exec kwm
> > > > 
> > > > to 
> > > > 
> > > > sleep 2 ; exec wmaker
> > > > 
> > > > but then i can't log in.. (i use runlevel 5)
> > > > 
> > > > thanks,
> > > > peter
> > > 
> > > WindowMaker has it's own script to set itself up, wmaker.inst
> > > 
> > > This will set up windowmaker as your default window manager.
> > > 
> > > If you want to start a different manager, you should change the
> > > appropriate line in .xinitrc
> > > 
> > > Good luck,
> > > 
> > > Josh
> > > 
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