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Everything *NIX This is a general forum about all forms of *nix. Post your ideas and thoughts on this wonderful OS family. Talk about your personal favorite flavor of *nix and why you think it's so much better than the others. Anything pertaining to *nix and *nix administration should be posted here.

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Old 2008-04-22, 18:34
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Default Fedora Window Managers

when i last installed fedora, i decided no to install any DE's or WM and fedora provided this magnificently simplistic WM, called TWM. I later installed enlightenment which still allowed me the ability to switch to TWM by selecting Default System ?environment? [or something of the sort] then I installed Gnome, which was added to my list, but additionally overwrote Default System ?environment?.

Is there a way to make Gnome and TWM both accessible at login?
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Old 2008-04-26, 04:28
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Post Re: Fedora Window Managers

GDM and KDM have a sessions option that you can configure to switch between window managers, and I think you might be using GDM now though misconfigured, check your .xinitrc/.xsession. The configuration information is stored in /etc/X11/gdm/sessions, I don't remember the syntax but it should be intuitive once you find the existing entries.

If you didn't want to use a display manager you could put a small script in .xinitrc to give you a text menu after running startx.
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Old 2008-05-05, 21:27
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Default Re: Fedora Window Managers

i ended up adding TWM to the xsessions list

[code]
nano /usr/share/xsessions/twm.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=TWM
Comment=This session lets you master Twm
Exec=/usr/bin/twm
Icon=
Type=Application

[\code]
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