[Users] Attachments - can the window manger be changed ?

slitt at troubleshooters.com slitt at troubleshooters.com
Sat Feb 8 14:22:17 UTC 2025


>On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 18:10:31 -0400
>Leon Fisk <lfiskgr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Gnome Desktop auto displays all open apps in largish thumbnails soon
>> as I drag out of Gnome-Commander window. I keep dragging to
>> appropriate thumbnail (Claws Compose) which then goes back to full
>> window.  
>
>Wow, 374 new packages and I may need to increases /root , no worries
>though. Th einstall asked for a display manager, which one do you use
>please ?  It's tired into XServer, and display managers tend to freeze
>things up a bit on this computer. I took the default one in the
>install.

Personally, I'd not use a display manager, but just boot to CLI and
then run startx to get to GUI. This requires you to edit ~/.xinitrc .

SteveT


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