menu item to start other wm

[Craig Ringer]

>>Is there a command I can add to the xfce4 destop menu to start another 
>>window manager/desktop invironment? On xfce3 and Icewm you can add the 
>>"restart" command to go to a different desktop.
 >
 > Nope, there is nothing similar in xfce4
 >

An ugly version of the same effect could be achieved by calling scripts 
that killed xfwm4 and started the desired WM. You'd retain the rest of 
the xfce session - panel, etc - though.

Assuming you can handle the session such that X doesn't exit when some 
part of xfce4 is killed, you should be able to kill all of xfce and 
transfer to another WM.

I must admit some confusion on the matter of /why/ though. If I need a 
session in a different WM, it's only going to be for demos and such - 
I'll generally just use "Xnest -query localhost" or start another X server.

Extremely ugly version that'll do things like kill all running xfwm4 
sessions if you're logged in multiple times:

#!/bin/sh
WINDOWMANAGER=$1
pkill xfwm4 && $WINDOWMANAGER

Craig Ringer