Re: preserving window manager selection on upgrades.

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:54:09PM -0500, Jesse Jacobsen wrote:
> 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?

There wasn't with the /etc/X11/window-managers, if you look at it that way.
The alternatives don't affect ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc.

> 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.

And what is so horribly hard about the latter? :)

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