[openbox] Fw: Restart different WM

Oleg Popov opopov at samaratransgaz.gazprom.ru
Wed Aug 11 00:07:50 EDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corey Wright" <undefined at pobox.com>
To: <opopov at samaratransgaz.gazprom.ru>
Cc: <openbox at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [openbox] Fw: Restart different WM


> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 12:33:54 +0400
> "Oleg Popov" <opopov at samaratransgaz.gazprom.ru> wrote:
> 
> > > I want to add menu item for switching to another WM.
> ...
> > > I need something like this:
> > > 
> > >  <item label="restart Window Maker">
> > >    <action name="Restart"><execute>restart
> > >    winmaker</execute></action>
> > > </item>
> > > or
> > > 
> > > item label="restart Window Maker">
> > >    <action name="Restart"><restart> winmaker<restart></action>
> > > </item>
> > > 
> > > But that not works on openbox.
> > > Anyone knows how to do that?
> 
> from my debian-generated menu:
> 
>   <menu id='WindowManagers' label='WindowManagers'>
>     <item label='flwm'>
>       <action name='Restart'><execute>/usr/bin/flwm</execute></action>
>     </item>
>     <item label='Metacity'>
>       <action
> name='Restart'><execute>/usr/bin/metacity</execute></action>
>     </item>
>     <item label='Openbox'>
>       <action
> name='Restart'><execute>/usr/bin/openbox</execute></action>
>     </item>
>     <item label='XFwm'>
>       <action name='Restart'><execute>xfwm4</execute></action>
>     </item>
>   </menu>
> 
> i just tried it and it worked (though launching xfwm4 was kinda useless
> as it's just a window manager, left me without any menus, and i had no
> applications open with which to launch menus or kill xfwm4).
> 
> actually, i use selectwm <http://ordiluc.net/selectwm/> to accomplish
> the same and prefer it (wm agnostic, wm autodetection, edit wm entries
> from within selectwm, etc).  just kill your wm and you are presented
> with selectwm to choose a new wm.  and you can choose whatever wm when
> starting x.
> -- 
> undefined at pobox.com


Thanks ,
I will try selectwm.


Best Regards
Popov Oleg



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