From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: StumpWM and Gnome Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:31:37 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1229113963.833145@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <87ljulhhz1.fsf@mundaneum.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229114519 12998 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2008 20:41:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:41:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 21:43:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LBEqY-0007Fx-W6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:42:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58361 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LBEpN-0004zR-FE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:41:37 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!194.25.134.126.MISMATCH!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1229114011 23057 143.93.54.11 (12 Dec 2008 20:33:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:33:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: <87ljulhhz1.fsf@mundaneum.com> Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-202-113.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165243 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60570 Archived-At: Sébastien Vauban wrote: > Hi, > >> I thought using a line like this: >> (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/usr/local/src/stumpwm") > > I'm hijacking this thread about the Info on StumpWM to ask > something related to it, but where I'm completely newbie. > > I read things about StumpWM with a lot of interest for some > time, now. I would like to give it a try, but I fear I would > miss windows and icons. > > So, my question is: under Ubuntu, is it possible to have both > StumpWM *and* Gnome, and have a convenient way to switch between > both -- so I sometimes can learn with the StumpWM, and sometimes > (when I'm in a hurry) work efficiently with what I better know > (Gnome)? > > Any hints on how to do this? > > Best regards, > Seb > Maybe the best way for you would be starting a 2nd Xserver. startx /full/path/to/stumpwm -- :1 You need the apropriate rights to do this. I don't know much about Ubuntu, so I can't tell wheather this will work out of the box. -ap