Switch on openbox window manager

Question

I'm using RASPBIAN and I don't really like the default window manager.

How can I uninstall it and switch on openbox?

Answer 1

I installed openbox (sudo apt-get install openbox) and create the ~/.xinitrc file like this:

$ echo "exec openbox-session" > ~/.xinitrc 

Now, when I run startx, the openbox session is started.

Answer 2

I too changed my WM (for i3, what else?) but I don't want to directly log into it, because I want the comfort of the distro's DE (network, sound control, etc.) so I edited ~/.dmrc

From this

Session=lightdm-xsession

To this

#Session=lightdm-xsession
Session=i3

And logged out and back in.