mikshaw
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Joined: July 2004 |
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Posted: Dec. 03 2004,01:58 |
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Here's a hint for using multiple window managers with startx...
Personally I don't care for having ~/.xinitrc limited to one wm at a time, so I wrote something which will allow me to send arguments to xinit, and if no arguments are passed it defaults to fluxbox:
| Code Sample | ARG="$@"
# specify the default wm argument here:
DEFAULTWM="fluxbox"
if [ ! $ARG ]; then
ARG=$DEFAULTWM
fi
case $ARG in
evil)
fbsetbg -f ~/image/paper/firepenguin.jpg
root-tail --noinitial --font snap -f --color red4 --whole --cont ........ --cont-color black -g 512x384+4+0 \
${HOME}/.fluxbox/log,red4,'general' \
/var/log/warn,DarkOrange4,'warn' \
/var/log/XFree86.0.log,tomato4,'XFree86' \
/var/log/smpppd/ifcfg-ppp0.log,orange4,'pppd' &
WM='/opt/evilwm/evilwm -term aterm'
;;
ion)
Esetroot -f ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/doom3.jpg
WM=ion
;;
bb)
WM=blackbox
;;
ob)
WM=openbox
;;
twm)
xterm &
xclock -digital -bg black -fg gray -update 1 -geometry -0+0 &
xsetroot -solid MidnightBlue
WM=twm
;;
kde)
WM=kde
;;
wmi)
WM=/opt/wmi/bin/wmi
;;
xwnc)
WM='Xwnc -ac -geometry 1024x768 :1'
;;
*)
xsetroot -solid Black
WM="$ARG"
;;
esac
# Start the window manager
exec $WM &> ~/.fluxbox/log |
This is put at the end of .xinitrc in place of the fluxbox line.
You could simplify it to just this:
| Code Sample |
ARG="$@"
DEFAULTWM="fluxbox"
if [ ! $ARG ]; then
ARG=$DEFAULTWM
fi
WM="$ARG"
exec $WM |
The difference is that the first one allows for abbreviated WM names and additional commands...the second one just launches whatever you use as an argument. For example, you could do "startx firefox" to start an X session with just firefox and no window manager.
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