[XFCE][mdk 10] How can I change my Window Manager, xfwm4 ?

alex mt.hood at freesbee.fr
Wed Aug 25 16:01:51 CEST 2004


Olivier wrote:

>Hi
>
>On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 02:35, alex wrote:
>  
>
>>I would like to install a window Border theme from this Gnome website
>>http://art.gnome.org/themes/metacity/666/
>>    
>>
>                              ^^^^^^^^
>
>Unless you are running "metacity", you won't be able to use that theme
>(metacity is current Gnome's WM - there've been quite a few,
>Enlightenment, Sawfish were previous GNOME's window managers)
>
>Xfce uses "xfwm4" by default, but you can use another one if you wish.
>
>Cheers,
>Olivier.
>  
>

Oki,
so I installed metacity

[root at localhost salsa]# urpmi metacity
Pour satisfaire les dépendances, les paquetages suivants vont être 
installés (6 Mo):
libmetacity-private0-2.6.5-3mdk.i586
metacity-2.6.5-3mdk.i586
Est-ce correct ? (O/n) o

    
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libmetacity-private0-2.6.5-3mdk.i586.rpm
    
ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/metacity-2.6.5-3mdk.i586.rpm
installation de 
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libmetacity-private0-2.6.5-3mdk.i586.rpm 
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/metacity-2.6.5-3mdk                       .i586.rpm
Préparation...              
##################################################
   1:libmetacity-private0   
##################################################
   2:metacity               
##################################################
[root at localhost salsa]#
** (xftaskbar4:3264): CRITICAL **: file utf8.c: line 34 
(utf8_string_remove_controls): assertion `str != NULL' failed


But now how can I change my WM (xfwm4)  ?
I think I have to edit the file "xinitrc".
But I couln't find this file neither in the directory /etc nor in the 
directory /usr/local/etc. I installed xfce with urpmi. I use also KDE.


What do I do ? I have to create a file xinitrc ?



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