pekwm in xfce?

Alexander Toresson alexander.toresson at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 07:02:39 CET 2006


On 1/17/06, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at corsac.net> wrote:
> René Lange wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed xfce, and I like it. I have Ubuntu Breezy, and my gnome
> > has become quite slow now. I installed pekwm, too, which is just a little
> > naked, but pleases me otherwise.
> >
> > Now, xfce is a desktop environment that brings its own window manager,
> > which I would like to replace by pekwm.
> >
> > Is that possible at all? And if yes, how could one do that?
>
> Yes it's possible, xfce is quite modular. Just kill xfwm4, run pekwm:
>
> pkill xfwm4 && pekwm &
>
> Then remember to save your session when logging out.
>
> Regards
> --
> Yves-Alexis Perez
>

Umh, doing this will kill pekwm when the terminal is closed, which is
quite probable to be before the session manager has recorded that
pekwm was started. The correct way to start pekwm in a terminal would
be like this:

pekwm & disown

Or you could just use the run dialog or minicmd panel plugin.

Regards, Alexander Toresson



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