https://www.slackwiki.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Changing_Window_ManagersChanging Window Managers - Revision history2026-04-08T14:22:41ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.0https://www.slackwiki.com/index.php?title=Changing_Window_Managers&diff=80&oldid=prevErik: Copy from old2009-06-02T03:21:59Z<p>Copy from old</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Well I'm sure you all want to change you window manager at some point<br />
in time:), well this tutorial is going to show you how in<br />
Slackware. First as a user run the following command:<br />
<br />
xwmconfig<br />
<br />
This will bring up an ncurses based menu to select the window manager<br />
you want. What this does for the user is copy the xinitrc from<br />
/etc/X11/xinit/. For instance, Say I want KDE to startup, all the<br />
tool would do is run:<br />
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cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.kde $HOME/.xinitrc<br />
<br />
That is basicly what it does, Now say you want to start a program from <br />
when starting your window manager? Well thats easy, we shall open up the<br />
~/.xinitrc: (I am going to use the fluxbox one)<br />
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exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox<br />
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That is what you see, so say you want to start a program before<br />
fluxbox, like a program that changes your background? Well here is an<br />
example:<br />
<br />
background-program &<br />
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox<br />
<br />
You see you MUST have the & or fluxbox wont startup. <br />
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I hope you learned from this.<br />
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[[Category:Tutorials]]</div>Erik