I thought we have to edit the .xinitrc file.Can that be done.How many windows managers can one have.Can someone help me install FVWM in Ubuntu. Cheers ! Vignesh <div>On 10/3/05, Karl Hegbloom <<a href="mailto:hegbloom@pdx.edu">hegbloom@pdx.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 18:08 +0200, Juanma Barranquero wrote: > I'm using Ubuntu, and I'm reasonably happy with Gnome but metacity is > really a bit short on features, so I'm giving a try to Enlightenment > (DR16, the just-a-window-manager version, not the shinny but yet > unfinished DR17, total-windowing-environment one). > > Well, I've had no trouble getting it with > > sudo apt-get install enlightenment > > but, what do I do now to convince GDM that I want to use Enlightenment > as default window manager? Open [System --> Preferences --> Sessions], and then in the "Current Session" tab, find 'metacity' and highlight it with a mouse click. Set its style to "normal", then click the "Apply" button. Open a terminal emulator, and run this command, substituting the command name of your chosen window manager where I have chosen Sawfish below: killall metacity && sawfish </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 & disown %1; gnome-session-save Click "Ok" on the dialog box. It is now running your chosen window manager, and that change should remain when you next log in. -- Karl Hegbloom <<a href="mailto:hegbloom@pdx.edu">hegbloom@pdx.edu </a>> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div>