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Majin

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Registered: 2009-04-08

Posts: 2

replacing xfwm with xmonad

well I wanted to use xmonad instead of xfwm
but I wasn't able to figure out how to disable xfce autostarting xfwm
killing xfwm
killall xfwm doens't work because
I'm not able to start xmonad afterwards because my keyboard will be disabled...

Villain

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Registered: 2009-03-31

Posts: 15

Re: replacing xfwm with xmonad

Maybe replace the xfwm call in the xinitrc script?

Edit: No wait, it says that starting xfwm is handled by xfce4-session, which is a binary.. Hmmm...
Maybe recompile it?

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Majin

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Registered: 2009-04-08

Posts: 2

Re: replacing xfwm with xmonad

Well i don't really know how to do that sorry...
Isn't there any other way?

herd

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-05-18

Posts: 143

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Re: replacing xfwm with xmonad

killall xfwm4 && xmonad &

should do the trick.

However, xmonad being a tiling window manager, it won't play fair with other
xfce components: It would tile the panels and the desktop window as well.

Better select xmonad from your login manager (gdm etc.).

hth,

herd

eol

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Registered: 2009-05-07

Posts: 1

Re: replacing xfwm with xmonad

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmon … ad_in_XFCE
The little link who does it all!