Re: how to set default wm?

["Benjamin F. Zhou" <zhoub@fisci.com>]

Thank you all for the many replies.

but there is no x-window-manager, only:
/etc/alternatives/WindowMaker -> /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker-debian

but there is no WindowMaker-debian at all.

I tried to manually redefine the symlink to point to /usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox
with

ln -s WindowMaker /usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox
but got the msg "blackbox exists". what should I do?

thank you
Ben


Craig Brozefsky wrote:

> Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com> writes:
>
> > Benjamin F. Zhou said:
> > > My question is: where is the file which controls which wm to start when
> > > I type startx from a console?
> >
> > /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager is a symlink to your default wm.
>
> You should manage this symlink with the update-alternatives command,
> not manually tho.
>
> The easiest thing to do is:
>
> update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
>
> If the window-manager you want is not listed as available you can
> install it with:
>
> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-window-manager \
>                     x-window-manager /usr/bin/<thewmiwant> PRIORITY
>
> Where PRIORITY is a number higher than the highest existing priority
> for the x-window-manager alternative.  You can ge ta list of
> priorities with:
>
> update-alternatives --display x-window-manager
>
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