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RE: x-window-manager link



KDE isn't a window manager, it's a desktop environment.

try 'apt-get install kdm', and start it from kdm.

(disclaimer-- I use gnome, not kde, but I know that you need a window
manager underlying kde/gnome)

glen


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark R. Millsap [mailto:mark@uotta.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 02:05 PM
To: Stefano Zacchiroli; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: x-window-manager link



Ohh... bummer.

Here is what I get when I tried the command you suggested:

There is only 1 program which provides x-window-manager
(/usr/bin/X11/twm).  Nothing to configure.

Now what????

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefano Zacchiroli [mailto:zack@debian.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:37 AM
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: x-window-manager link


On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:33:39AM -0400, Mark R. Millsap wrote:
> In the /usr/bin/x-window-manager is a link pointing to
> /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager file, which in turn is a link to
> /usr/bin/X11/twm.
>
> I would like to be able to start the KDE desktop from the command line
with
> the 'startx' command.

   update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

and choose the window manager you prefer.

Cheers!

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Home Page: http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro
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