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irony
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Jul 2002
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 Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 1:01 am Post subject: window manager select script not working |
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From what I understand, .xinitrc is just a shell script. What I'd like to be able to do is just type "startx gnome" or "startx kde" in order to start different window manager apps when I start X. My problem seems to be that the command startx isn't recognizing the "gnome" or "kde" part as the argument $1, so I get the error message "bad command option "gnome"".
I've seen other scripts use $1 to reference the first argument in a similar manner...any suggestions?
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#!/bin/bash
defaultwm=kde
#set the window manager to $1 if it was supplied
WM=${1:-$defaultwm}
#start the window manager of choice
case ${WM} in
kde)
wm=startkde
;;
gnome)
wm=gnome-session
;;
fluxbox)
wm=fluxbox
;;
*) wm=kde # in case they type something funny
esac
exec $wm
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 1:20 am Post subject: |
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Try:
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startx ~/.xinitrc gnome
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startx ~/.xinitrc kde
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This works. If you have client args, you need to provide a client name to startx. |
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pjp
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| Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| Naan Yaar wrote: | Try:
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startx ~/.xinitrc gnome
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startx ~/.xinitrc kde
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This works. If you have client args, you need to provide a client name to startx. |
Perhaps an alias of | Code: | | alias sx='startx ~/.xinitrc' |
would save some typing.
That should allow for sx gnome or sx kde
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