Re: x-session-manager alternative

[Malcolm Parsons <malcolm@ivywell.screaming.net>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 05:34:01PM -0500, xsdg wrote:
> If this happened, how would the user choose between different Window managers installed on the same box (which doesn't work anyway (in Helix), but should soon).  AFAIK, Gnome and KDE don't conflict, so if somebody wanted, they might run Gnome and KDE on different VT's.  If the person using KDE runs Window Maker, and the person running Gnome wants Sawfish, this would effectually bypass update-alternatives.  Though I'm not sure what's happening ATM, I am positive that this is not the preferred behavior.

Please press ENTER occasionally.

all alternatives can be overridden on a per-user basis by adding ~/bin to
your PATH, and then placing a symlink to the required binary in ~/bin.