How to change Window Manager (GUI) for win-kex

I have been trying to use dwm tile Window Manager from Suckless with the Kali installation on a Windows 10 machine. But I kept running into issues. I tried using .xinitrc and other ways, but nothing worked until I discovered the file xstartup /usr/lib/win-kex/xstartup.

From there, you can change startxfce4 to dwm.

Then you can close the TigerVNC. And in the Kali terminal, use the commands to restart with your new Window Manager:

Commands for restarting kex

If you are looking for the source code for Kex:

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