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  From: Robert Wuttke <robert.wuttke@disc.com.au>
  To  : Stock, Nick" <Nick.Stock@dsto.defence.gov.au>, "'Matthew Mills' <Nick.Stock@dsto.defence.gov.au>
  Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:05:53 +0930

Re: running KDE and Enlightenment -- how?

>From here maybe create a /usr/bin/local/startwm

#!/bin/sh
cat < /dev/null > $HOME/.wm_style
echo $1 > $HOME/.wm_style
startx

Then call

startwm AfterStep

Rob.


-----Original Message-----
From: Stock, Nick <Nick.Stock@dsto.defence.gov.au>
To: 'Matthew Mills' <matthew.mills@santos.com.au>
Cc: LinuxSA (E-mail) <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Date: Wednesday, 21 April 1999 12:49 PM
Subject: RE: running KDE and Enlightenment -- how?


>There is what I would consider a "correct" way to do this sort of thing.
>Not that I am an expert or anything in fact I am sure there are a number
>of other ways to do this but anyway...
>
>Take a look at /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients you should find something like
>this...
>
><---cut--->
># First thing - check the user preferences
>if [ -f $HOME/.wm_style ] ; then
>    WMSTYLE=`cat $HOME/.wm_style`
>    case "$WMSTYLE" in
>        Afterstep | AfterStep)
>            exec /usr/X11R6/bin/RunWM --AfterStep
>            ;;
>        Fvwm95 | fvwm95)
>            exec /usr/X11R6/bin/RunWM --Fvwm95
>            ;;
>    esac
>fi
><---cut--->
>
>All you need do is add the options for other window managers before
>the end of the case (esac) statement. eg for KDE
>
><---cut--->
>        KDE | kde)
>            exec /opt/kde/bin/startkde
>            ;;
><---cut--->
>
>Then in order to load any particular window manager just edit you
>~/.wm_style file accordingly. OK, so you have to edit a file each
>time you want to swap but still...
>
>Nick
>RJ-45 of all trades.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthew Mills [mailto:matthew.mills@santos.com.au]
>Sent: Wednesday, 21 April 1999 13:03
>To: Linux List
>Subject: running KDE and Enlightenment -- how?
>
>
>Hi , I am interested in trying out enlightenment on my Redhat machine and
>want to know if there is some way how I can run both.  What I am wanting is
>to be able to type startkde to get into X using KDE as my window manager
and
>startenl to start enlightenment as my window manager.  Is this posible or
do
>I need to add another user and log in as a different user to use different
>window managers such as these two?
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Matt
>
>
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