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mile357

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Registered: 2011-09-22

Posts: 2

Using an alternate window manager

Hi, I've searched the forum, wiki and google and can't find an answer to this, so maybe someone here can help.  I'd like to use XFCE as my DE, but instead of using xfwm as the window manager I'd like to use DWM (I just prefer a tiling manager, though I love the panel and other features of XFCE).  Is there a way to do this?

In Gnome 2 the setup isn't too difficult (add a line to .gnomerc telling it to use DWM, though there's a lot of other tweaks to get things working well).  Is there something like that for XFCE?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Jristz

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From: Sud-America

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 111

Re: Using an alternate window manager

actuali the only form to replace a windowmanager si
killing xfwm4
you_new_WM --replace & exit
from the terminal

and exiting  saving the session

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mile357

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Registered: 2011-09-22

Posts: 2

Re: Using an alternate window manager

Thanks for the help!  I'm still working on it.  I found this walkthrough for using xmonad with XFCE, so I'm trying to adapt it to suit my purposes and get DWM working.