Bash and X and Window Managers.

[carlsmith]

I have matchbox and fluxbox installed, but when I boot my system, fluxbox runs automatically.

Can someone please give me a few pointers? I just want to be able to start and quit my window managers at will using bash commands.

[sharpdust]

I don't think you can switch window managers without logging out of X first.

You can define what window manager runs first (as well as starting other apps) in your .xinitrc file

# .xinitrc
fluxbox & wmpid=$!

# Start other apps
# firefox &
# xterm &
# xterm &

# HANG POINT - wait for window manager to exit
wait $wmpid

[conundrumx]

You can indeed change window managers after starting X. Are you looking to boot into bash, and then choose a WM/DE or change from one to the other while in X on the fly?

[carlsmith]

Yes, I'm looking to boot into Bash, then be able to tell X what to do. My aim isn't so much to switch between window managers, but I would like to understand how to, what I need to figure out is what to do to display graphical output from Python scripts in a full-screen without a window manager.
I'd like to be able to write a little script with Nano, save it, then run it from the command line and have the graphics open up and take over the screen until I quit the process.
Thank you for getting back to me too.

[carlsmith]

I don't think you can switch window managers without logging out of X first.

You can define what window manager runs first (as well as starting other apps) in your .xinitrc file

# .xinitrc
fluxbox & wmpid=$!

# Start other apps
# firefox &
# xterm &
# xterm &

# HANG POINT - wait for window manager to exit
wait $wmpid

Nice one chap, thank you, this certainly helps with the window manager problem.