icewm

[doug vega]

doug vega <dvega1 at rogers.com> wrote:  

  

Jonathan Carter <jonathan at ubuntu.com> wrote:   Hi Doug

doug vega wrote:
> how do I change the default window manager ?
> icewm is less memory hungry
> P.S.
> I have already installed it on the server

You can use the update-alternatives command:

$ sudo update-alternatives --list x-session-manager
/usr/bin/gnome-session
/usr/bin/xfce4-session

If I'd like to set it to Xfce, I can set it with:
$ sudo update-alternatives --set x-session-manager /usr/bin/xfce4-session

I'm not sure what the IceWM session is called, which is why you'd have
to do the alternatives listing first.

-Jonathan
   
   
  thanks for your responce .
  I soon found out that not everybody wanted to use the same window manager  ; is there a way to 
  have different window managers for different users ( I still want to control who uses what )