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How to use a different WINDOWMANAGER The default windowmanager is Sawfish on all Athena accounts, but you can readily change it to one of two other supported windowmanagers, mwm or twm, or to several unsupported ones. If you use the old, dash based interface, the default windowmanager is mwm, except on SGI's where it is 4Dwm, the SGI-enhanced version of Mwm. There are unsupported windowmanagers available in the "windowmanagers" locker. To get a full listing of windowmanagers in this locker, type: athena% add windowmanagers athena% more /mit/windowmanagers/README Some of these windowmanagers have problems interacting with gnome. You might find that you want to revert to the old dash based interface when using them. For more information, see the stock answer "How do I GET RID of this new INTERFACE" at http://web.mit.edu/answers/9.0_release/9.0_punt.html Incomplete list of windowmanagers (supported and unsupported): windowmanager locker to add documentation ------------- ------------- ------------- sawfish info sawfish , http://sawmill.sf.net/ mwm man mwm 4Dwm man 4Dwm (SGI only) twm man twm afterstep add windowmanagers http://www.afterstep.org/ ctwm add windowmanagers man ctwm fvwm add windowmanagers man fvwm fvwm95 add windowmanagers gwm add windowmanagers vtwm.gamma add windowmanagers icewm add windowmanagers enlightenment add windowmanagers To change your windowmanager to TWM, just put the following line in your .environment file (or create one using emacs if you don't already have that file): setenv WINDOW_MANAGER twm If you want to use one of these unsupported windowmanagers, you will need to edit your .environment file, or create one using emacs if you don't already have one, to include the following lines: add windowmanagers setenv WINDOW_MANAGER wmname where "wmname" is the name of the windowmanager you want to use. Note that with the exception of going from twm to another twm variant, such as ctwm or vtwm.gamma, you will have to create a new customization file for your windowmanager when you switch. Details on how to do this are given in the various documentation locations listed above. Last updated: $Date: 2004/03/15 17:29:34 $ |
