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Title: Accidently window manager changed
Post by: SixT7 on March 20, 2010, 04:59:57 PM

Hi,
in the last session I killed my Xvesa because it needed 90% of the RAM. When i wanted to start it again, I just got the 'black and white pixels'-screen with the X as a cursor. I remembered that i had to use startX one time when this happend (another OS) and tried that.
The X server started and i could use TC again, but i think it is another wm than flwm.
How do i change it back?
Because even after a reboot without backup it didnt change back.
I already tried 'startx flwm' but it didnt change the wm, even if i did something.
Thank you (and sry for getting in trouble again  ;D,

SixT7

Title: Re: Accidently window manager changed
Post by: maro on March 20, 2010, 06:24:57 PM

AFAIK the environment variable $DESKTOP determines which window manager is used (see line 3 of '~/.xsession'). The value of this variable is on the other hand controlled by '/etc/sysconfig/desktop'. You will find that window manager use installation scripts (in '/usr/local/tce.installed') that change the content of '/etc/sysconfig/desktop'.

A simple echo 'flwm_topside' > /etc/sysconfig/desktop ; startx might be all what you need to do.

Title: Re: Accidently window manager changed
Post by: SixT7 on March 21, 2010, 01:20:22 AM

nevermind guys... my bad. -.-
I forgot that i installed evilwm. It changed to evilwm. That didn't look familiar. Sry for a pointless topic here x)

SixT7