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How do I change my default window manager?

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smp

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I have KDE running now, and I originally changed that from Gnome but forget how .. I just installed Blackbox and need to switch to that.

edit:
okay, I edited /home/myself/.Xclients-default
from
exec startkde
to
exec blackbox

Not sure if that's the right thing to do, but all hints I got from docs seemed like this was what I was supposed to do. Now, when I startx I think blackbox is what I get, but it's nothing, just the background (dark grey) and a toolbar at the bottom with nothing in it... it says "workspace1" and then there is the time too. What did I do wrong?
 
Hey, they don't call it a minimalist window manager for nothing. You looking for a marching band and dancing girls? 😉

Try right-clicking on the background and you should get a short list of basic apps like xterm, xfontsel, and mozilla. Not much. You can add more by editing the /usr/share/blackbox/menu file (or /usr/X11R6/share/... and so on). Better yet, copy that file to ~/.blackboxrc to be your personal rc file and leave the original untouched. The menu file syntax is very simple and well commented.
 
Well I don't know about a marching band .. but dancing girls would be nice 😉

Thanks .. that helps a lot, I'm gonna check out those files .. you're right though, right clicking gave me a menu, this is cool.
 
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