Changing the Window Manager on X windows

[ITz The MaN]

Does any one know how to make x windows start up with a different window manager? I realy hate twm. I downloaded and installed Afterstep, and the new Xfree86 comes with Gnome (i think), but I can't get them to run!
Thanx!

[Edited by ITz The MaN on 12-26-2000 at 07:40 PM]

[scruffy]

I am using Xvnc, so I can tell you what I did. If you are unsing XFree, the process is likely similar

In ~/.vnc/xstartup I just changed the line
twm &
to
afterstep &

looking through the default startx script on my computer (Can't quite recall how it got there, maybe when I installed Xvnc...), it seems that it looks for a ~/.xinitrc, and runs one if it finds it. Otherwise, it runs the script at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc. I suspect that you could just make a copy of the global script in your home directory, and swap out twm for your own favourite wm.

[ITz The MaN]

I did this, but now no window manager loads up.... I don't think I installed Afterstep correctly (I did give a few errors while i did the "make install" command). where did you get your window manager? Were the pre compiled?
Thanx!

[scruffy]

I got it precompiled, it was on stepwise.com IIRC

[jove]

Hello,

I am trying to install AfterStep as well. I am having a hell of time just getting it compiled; problems with supporting libraries. Is there a Darwin compatible binary to download (with supporting libraries :-) )? If I get it installed and figured out - I\'ll post the steps. Any help is appreciated.

Dave

[ITz The MaN]

Ok, i downloaded AfterStep and WindowManager from stepwise.com..... how exactly do I install these? They look like source....

[scruffy]

Sorry, my mistake! The version on stepwise doesn\'t compile successfully for some reason. It says it is ready for Darwin, but maybe things are different in OS X...

Check this page: http://dryden.biol.yorku.ca/darwin.html

Download the 9MB file they say works. It\'s already compiled, so you you can just:

<tt>gnutar zxf afterstep-darwin.tar.gz
cd AfterStep-1.8.0/
su
make install</tt>

[jove]

Thank you for the link to an AfterStep package that works!

I followed your instructions then created the .xinitrc file in~/ with the path specification to the AfterStep file.

After logging in as >console I typed startx. A pixelated screen appeared with an X cursor. I could click to create an AfterStep menu that did pretty much nothing except allow me to make things more pixelated!

What else is there?