Re: X 3.3.6 (potato) + window manager
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 02:51:49PM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote:
>
> It seems that latest X in potato has removed the support for
> /etc/X11/window-managers in Xsession.
> So how does one start fvwm95 automatically from xdm ??
>
> In documentation I found just the removal mentioned,
> but no alternative:
>
> * debian/xfree86-common/Xsession:
> - remove support for /etc/X11/window-managers; virtually every window
> manager has migrated to the new alternatives method (Closes: #58224)
>
I believes they all moved to using the 'alternatives' setup. See
/etc/alternatives and man update-alternatives. Basically it's a tangled
web of symlinks allowing a bit of abstraction.
$ ls -l /etc/x-window-manager
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Mar 2 00:47 x-window-manager
-> /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm-gnome*
$ ls -l /usr/bin/x-window-manager
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jan 8 22:27 x-window-manager
-> /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager*
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