Window Managers on Slack

[TRN]

After the installation of Slackware 9, Birdie and I decided to stay in the command line for a bit. Finally, we used startx and were launched into fvwm. It took me a bit to remember that xwmconfig is used to change the window manager launched with startx.

:oops:

[Ammiel]

I like Slackware for the very reason it doesn't automatically startx, er, start X :)

The Slackware 9 installer prompts for the default window manager. The installer's setup options, including the default window manager, can be accessed later within the Setup screen of pkgtool: run pkgtool from the command line as root, enter the 'Setup' screen, then select 'xwmconfig'.
--Raging Dragon

[TRN]

Yes. IIRC, we were moving the cursor through the list of optionally available window managers. We left it on fvwm. My interpretation was that all would be available in a graphical display manager such as gdm. However, there is no issue with running xwmconfig at the command line and then startx. Just a preference ;-)