[clug-talk] How to change the Window Manager?

[Shawn]

There doesn't seem to be an rc.conf file on Suse (whereis rc.conf doesn't 
return it).  I know that with Gentoo, there is, and I remember seeing the 
XSESSION variable there.

I took a look at the Xsession script in the /etc/X11/xdm directory, and found 
reference to an environment variable called WINDOWMANAGER.  Now I just need 
to track down where it's defined.

OR, I stop putzing around and just install KDM/KDE, and get some work 
done... :)  

The only reason I want to avoid KDE is that the drive only has 4GB, and it's 
already close to 1GB with the base system.  Installing KDE tacks on a couple 
hundred meg, and I still need to install the apps I'll be using on this box 
(eclipse, some office apps - probably abiword and gnumeric, web tools, etc.).  
So I'm expecting to have very little drive space left when I'm done - and I 
still need to be able to work on my own files/apps - some of which take a 
fair chunk of space.

Thanks for the responses.

Shawn

On Monday 31 January 2005 11:29, Unleashed wrote:
> I thought that was located in /etc/rc.conf for most distros normaly near
> the bottem and its normaly called something like XSESSION= and then you
> put in your GUI.
>
> Travis R.