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Posted: June 21 2006,10:46 QUOTE

For my user i installed ICEWM window manager through Mydsl. Currently it is in this WM only.Now how can i switch between window managers??

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Posted: June 21 2006,11:08 QUOTE

Ohhh, the icewm in dsl repo is no good. I'm not understanding this "Currently it is in this WM only" do you mean your already in icewm or fluxbox or jwm? I beleave you can just choose exit which will take you out of gui, than type start (fluxbox,jwm,icewm) not sure though, i only use fluxbox.
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Posted: June 21 2006,14:16 QUOTE

Please do not tangle the icewm uci extension into that mess by stating icewm in general is broken.  I spent a good deal of time making sure it would work and continue to work in the future. =o)
The icewm2.dsl, icewm-full.dsl, and icewm-lite.tar.gz extensions are broken. They all overwrite .xinitrc, which is a very bad thing, and run from a fluxbox-specific restart menu item which doesn't work from jwm (the user is left to guess how to use the extension).  The *.dsl versions also break desktop icons.
These extensions should be removed from the repository, please

Starting a different window manager in DSL typically requires editing /home/dsl/.xinitrc and /home/dsl/.desktop. The icewm.uci and evilwm.uci packages include a readme that explains how to do this:

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In recent versions of DSL (since the addition of JWM)
1) Open up /home/dsl/.xinitrc in a text editor and scroll to the end
  of the file, where the "case" statement chooses the desktop to use.
2) Add a case for "icewm".  This must be done BEFORE the wildcard (*).
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Here is part of the original:
       jwm )
         ./.background
         sleep 2
         exec jwm 2>/dev/null
       ;;
       * )
         exec fluxbox 2>/dev/null
       ;;
     esac
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Here is what it would look like with icewm added:
       jwm )
         ./.background
         sleep 2
         exec jwm 2>/dev/null
       ;;
     icewm)
     exec /opt/icewm/starticewm 2>/dev/null
     ;;
       * )
         exec fluxbox 2>/dev/null
       ;;
     esac
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3) Edit /home/dsl/.desktop, replacing the existing WM with "icewm".
4) Restart X.

In older versions of DSL (before the addition of JWM)
1) Open up /home/dsl/.xinitrc in a text editor and scroll to the end.
2) Replace "fluxbox" with "/opt/icewm/starticewm".
3) Restart X.


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Posted: June 21 2006,14:30 QUOTE

Sorry mikshaw, i only meant the icewm-full. I haven't tried the rest. So the .uci one is the good one?
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Posted: June 21 2006,14:30 QUOTE

icewm2.dsl, icewm-full.dsl, and icewm-lite.tar.gz have been removed.
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