If you have never tried FVWM as your Linux window manager, I urge you to give it a chance.
window manager on-the-fly switching... how do you do it?is there some clue as to how to do that for any window manager to any other?i mean, i want to be taught to fish, rather than just get a fish to eat. right now i want to suss how to switch from scrotwm to clfswm, and that'd be nice to know how to do that...
I've tried starting a full screen application without a window manager, using xinit,
which works but instead of starting at the top left of the screen the application starts somewhere in the middle of my screen.
I've tried the same using a custom entry in /usr/share/xsessions
and starting that from lightdm instead
of the default ubuntu window manager, but that gives me the same result.
I've the
When I boot up or log into gnome-classic (no effects), windows don't have the frame around them that has the minimize and close buttons and all that. After that, there all sorts of issues - for example, when I open a new window, it's in the very top left corner, obscuring the menu on the gnome panel...
By Marcos Aguilar
With the arrival of Gnome3 and Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity, it is necessary to clarify two concepts that are different and that tend to generate confusion: Desktop Environment and Window Manager.
DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT
(GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE)
What a desktop environment does is bring together different X clients and use them to create a common graphical user environment and a developmen
FluxBox window manager is really simple window manager even the configuration for it really easy and you can do more to get the best performance and better looking desktop using a lightweight desktop and that what FluxBox can give.
Anyone tried Hybryde Linux?"Hybryde Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution for the desktop. Its most unusual feature is an option to switch rapidly between multiple desktop environments and window manager without logging out - the list includes Enlightenment 17, GNOME 3 (GNOME Shell and GNOME 3 "Fallback" mode), KDE, LXDE, Openbox, Unity, Xfce and FVWM.
Hello tbalz,Any luck in finding a solution. In CentOS 5 I would put an entry in /etc/sysconfig/desktop and it would automatically launch my windows manager of choice (fvwm). This is n... [by slamtonio]
I don't know how to find the default window manager application name (executable file name and path). I need help to find the window manager.
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