Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Willie WY Wong <wongwwy@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] startx with multiple window managers
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 17:19:47
Message-Id: 20130824171933.GA27102@Gee-Mi-Ni.lesniewski.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] startx with multiple window managers by Randy Westlund
1 On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:39:45PM -0400, Penguin Lover Randy Westlund squawked:
2 > - log in
3 > - startx
4 > - login on tty2
5 > - edit .xinitrc (shown below)
6 > - startx -- :1
7 >
8 > .xinitrc goes from:
9 >
10 > > exec xmonad
11 > > #exec startxfce4
12 >
13 > to:
14 > > #exec xmonad
15 > > exec startxfce4
16 >
17 > Then I can switch between tty7 and tty8 at will. Usually I don't start xfce at all, but for the times when I do, I'd be nice to do this without editing a file. Can I simplify this process? Is there anyone else who uses multiple WMs? How do you manage them?
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19 If you use xinit instead of startx, you can use the environmental
20 variable
21
22 ~ $ XINITRC=".xinitrc-xmonad" xinit -- :1
23
24 should do what you want. Just keep the two different versions of
25 .xinitrc-xmonad and .xinitrc-xfce and use aliases if you don't want
26 too much typing.
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28 W
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30 Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
31 et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton