According to Michael Salmon:
> +----- On Wed, 04 Mar 1998 10:54:51 PST, Gary Kline writes:
> | According to Gary Kline:
> | >
> | >
> | > A few weeks ago I came across the GNOME project; a
> | > set of GNU network desktop tools. I'm guessing that GNOME
> | > is something like KDE, with things-integrated.
> | >
> | [[ ... ]]
> |
> | Here is yet another question for the list. Is there any
> | way of testing *other* window managers (or switching to
> | them) from within ctwm??
> |
> | I recently install Linux on a ssecond platform, and have
> | fvtm95 (?) as my root window manager. Clicking on one
> | of the menus let me try several other w-managers.
>
> I did this some years ago by running a shell script as my window
> manager which in turn ran my window manager of choice. When that window
> manager exited the script would check an atom to determine which
> manager to run next. One thing that I planned to do but never did was
> to make sure that the window manager ran for at least 30 seconds as
> this script will restart your window manager if it dies.
How, exactly? Would puttiing in a sleep do it?
> I have
> attached the script if anyone is interested, you have to change all
> window managers so that they set the atom to quit before exiting.
>
Thanks for your script, and to the other several ideas and
comments from everyone.
As I said, ctwm makes the most sense for my needs.... this
after using simple twm for many years. But others may have
other needs and tastes, so having an option of changing wm's
on the fly seems like a sound idea.
gary
-- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix
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