[rox-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: Rox Session always gets xfce4

[Peter <sw...@ho...>]

Thomas Leonard wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:03:36PM -0500, Peter wrote:
> [...]
>> I suppose I am missing the point. There was a time when you could change
>> the WM settings from within ROX-Session. Then, if I remember, about the
>> time Look and Feel was broken out, users lose the ability to change the
>> WM on the fly.
> 
> No, just the ability to do it from ROX-Session. Clicking on a window
> manager (eg, OroboROX) will switch to it dynamically.
> 
> I think you are just a little confused about the difference between a
> desktop/session (GNOME, KDE, ROX, XFCE; chosen from gdm) and a window
> manager (xfwm4, OroboROX, fvwm; one of the programs started by your chosen
> session manager).
> 
> Anyway, the instructions should be a little clearer now:
> 
> http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ROX-Session#ChooseWM
> 
>> command line was /home/slpeter/.xsession /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession kde
>> 
>> So $2 contained the WM choice. It should be picked up by ROX-Session so
>> that
> 
> No, 'kde' is a desktop, not a window manager. 'kwin' is a window manager.
> 
> 
By clicking on either kwin, or enlightenment in a ROX filer Window, an error
is reported that another WM is running and the selected one can't start.
Whrn I restart, I still come up with xfwm.