Re: Running a different window manager
Re: Running a different window manager
- Subject: Re: Running a different window manager
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:42:10 -0800
On Nov 10, 2008, at 16:16, Don MacQueen wrote:
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.
Yeah, this was done to help out Fink. Previously, Fink was trashing
our xinitrc with one for their users and then we were trashing
theirs... so we setup this rc.d style directory for them to "drop in"
updates.
I could combine these two into a single .xinitrc in my home
directory, and change it to run my preferred wm.
Yeah, but then you might miss out on updates that get dropped into /
usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ...
You might want to create a /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/98-
userwm.sh script which just does:
[[ -x ${HOME}/.xwm ]] && . ${HOME}/.xwm
Then just edit ~/.xwm to 'exec twm' or whatever on users that you want
to not have quartz-wm ... that way you will still get "fixes" for the
system xinitrc as well.
Is that the way to go? Or is there something more appropriate? Add
arguments to org.x.startx.plist in LaunchAgents?
No, leave that alone.
Is the --only-prox argument still valid?
Yeah, but as a warning... In the current 2.3.2 betas, we disable
pbproxy in quartz-wm and use the newer clipboard syncing code in
xpbproxy. This code will be running on a server thread soon, so you
won't need to do the --only-proxy (and if you actually do, it'll
actually cause quartz-wm to do nothing).
(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)
That's why the list is here...
--Jeremy
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