Re: wrong default-window-manager

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:14:56AM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote:
> Re:Hi!
> 
> Have you tried to set the x-window-manager link in /etc/alternatives to
> point on fvwm95?
> 
> I'm not quite sure wether the /etc/X11/window-managers file is still used.

its not, the last traces of this file have been obliterated in the
latest upgrade to the XFree packages.  see the xfree86 changelog. 

update-alternatives --config x-window-manager should allow you to set
the default windowmanager, if not just make sure
/etc/alternatives/x-window-manager is a symlink to the preferred
windowmanager.

> Martin
> 
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Robert Waldner wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > After updating to the latest "xserver-common" in frozen, X started up with fvwm 
> > as the default window-manager. I´ve checked /etc/X11/window-managers and 
> > there´s fvwm95 with correct path and all as the first window-manager in there.
> > 
> > While I can switch to fvwm95 on-the-fly my girl-friend, who also uses
> > my pc, isn´t clueful enough to live without all the default apps and
> > settings I installed with the (for her ;-) familiar interface of
> > fvwm95.
> > 
> > I already "apt-get remove fvwm" completely, to the effect that X comes
> > up with no window-manager at all :-( .  I´ve checked all the
> > configuration files I could find, but to no effect.
> > 
> > The only other option I can think of is to apt-get remove fvwm95,
> > apt-get install fvwm95, but that would just be working on the
> > symptoms, not the cause...
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > TIA,
> > &rw
> 
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Ethan Benson