Windows and Desktop Managers

[Suzanne Payne]

--On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:37 pm -0600 chriskomarnicki@shaw.ca wrote:

> I'd like to look into these window managers. Does anyone have any useful
> links so I can get more info on these without relying too much on this
> mailing list? I've already got a ton of questions ;)

I've not checked, but I suspect sawfish, fvwm, enlightenment etc come with 
YDL.  Failing that apt-get them.  Edit your .xinitrc so that the last line 
is something like

exec sawfish

# out any lines referring to gnome-session or startkde

(Probably a good idea to back up the .xinitrc file first!)

If you get into difficulties, press..um..I *think* it's 
ctrl-shift-backspace and that will quit X cleanly.  This is where you 
really do need to have at least a two button mouse so that you can right 
and left click.  Don't forget these are windows managers, not desktop 
managers.  Check out places like www.enlightenment.org for more information.

Suzanne