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jk121960

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From: Palos Hills, Illinois

Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 254

[Closed] Switch Window Managers on the fly

Hi, I was wondering if there is a decent way to change from like OpenBox to Awesome on the fly? I like both a great deal but they have different uses and would like to utilize both.

thanks for your help in this.

--jerry

Awesome is amazing!!

Last edited by jk121960 (2012-01-09 01:07:28)

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stefanwilkens

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From: Enschede, the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 624

Re: [Closed] Switch Window Managers on the fly

openbox --replace
awesome --replace

would that be an option? you can run these commands form cli

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jk121960

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From: Palos Hills, Illinois

Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 254

Re: [Closed] Switch Window Managers on the fly

That would switch the window manager, but what would we do about loading the config?

thanks

--jerry

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Earnestly

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Registered: 2011-08-18

Posts: 805

Re: [Closed] Switch Window Managers on the fly

Something I use to test different window managers and sometimes run several is to create separate ".xinitrc"s ( e.g. .xopenbox and .xawesome ) and then use

xinit [-nolisten tcp] .xawesome -- :1

to simply launch a new X server and switch between them with Ctrl-Alt-F#.

Not sure if this is the best way of going about things but it works quite well for now.

Last edited by Earnestly (2012-01-03 11:33:43)

jk121960

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From: Palos Hills, Illinois

Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 254

Re: [Closed] Switch Window Managers on the fly

Huh? I never would have thought to spawn another X, how do you know which function key the X's are attached to? F?

thanks

--jerry

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