Change default window manager

[James Tappin]

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:27:44 -0700
NoOp <glgxg at mfire.com> wrote:

N> On 06/01/2007 09:56 AM, Milos Prudek wrote:
N> > How do I change the default window manager in Ubuntu?
N> > 
N> > Not in KDM, that is easy, but on a system level, somehow via
N> > .xinitrc,
N> so that
N> > fluxbox is started when I run vncserver.
N> > 
N> > In Mandriva this was done via ~/.desktop.
N> > 
N> > I tried to create ~/.xinitrc with "exec /usr/bin/startfluxbox" but
N> > it
N> > 
N> did not
N> > help.
N> 

For vncserver you need ~/.vnc/xstartup,
For starting X from the command line with startx, ~/.xinitrc
For a default session from a display manager, ~/.xsession

Thus in principle you could have a different default WM for each case.
(I have certainly had this work as I used to have KDE as default desktop
and xfce4 for VNC). 

James



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