Re: preserving window manager selection on upgrades.

[Jesse Jacobsen <jjacobsen@jvlnet.com>]

On 05/18/00, Joey Hess addressed "Re: preserving window manager selection on upgrades.":
> Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> > This is 100% true, but how can we educate users that
> > /etc/X11/window-managers is no longer used at all? Can we perhaps sed
> > in a comment line or two at the top of the file saying:
> > 
> > # WARNING: This file is no longer used as of (version)!
> > # Please use 'update-alternatives --configure x-window-manager' instead.
> 
> I think it'd be a good thing to contine using the file, if it exists.

Sorry to nose into a thread here... but the change to wm alternatives
was a slight nuisance for me.  AFAICT, under the alternatives system,
there's no way to have a per-user setting for x-window-manager, is
there?  Maybe that's not what alternatives was designed for, but the
old /etc/X11/window-managers was a convenient place to find a list of
every installed window manager.  That made it relatively easy for any
user to customize his own ~/.xsession file the way he likes it,
knowing exactly what window managers are available and where to find
them.  Without /etc/X11/window-managers, the only way to do it would
be to parse the output of update-alternatives --display
x-window-manager.

So FWIW, I also think continuing some support of
/etc/X11/window-managers would be a good idea.  Thanks!

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