Running a different window manager
Running a different window manager
- Subject: Running a different window manager
- From: Don MacQueen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:16:58 -0800
What is the proper (best?) way to use an alternate window manager these days?
I have XQuartz 2.3.1 installed.
In the old days, I copied the system xinitrc from somewhere in /etc
into my home directory as .xinitrc, and then edited the end of it to
start my wm instead of quartz-wm. I also had .xinitrc first execute
quartz-wm --only-proxy.
Now, however, things are different.
I've found a system xinitrc in
/usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit
and it is similar to the old system xinitrc, but near the end it
executes a script named 99-quartz-wm.sh in subdirectory xinitrc.d,
and that second script is the one that actually executes quartz-wm.
I could combine these two into a single .xinitrc in my home
directory, and change it to run my preferred wm.
Is that the way to go? Or is there something more appropriate? Add
arguments to org.x.startx.plist in LaunchAgents?
Is the --only-prox argument still valid?
Thanks
-Don
(I searched this mailing list back several years and didn't find
anything... not saying it isn't there; just that I didn't find it)
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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA
925-423-1062
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