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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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openbox --replace
awesome --replace
would that be an option? you can run these commands form cli
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That would switch the window manager, but what would we do about loading the config?
thanks
--jerry
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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)
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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
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