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Re: wrong default-window-manager



Re:Hi!

Have you tried to set the x-window-manager link in /etc/alternatives to
point on fvwm95?

I'm not quite sure wether the /etc/X11/window-managers file is still used.

Martin

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Robert Waldner wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> After updating to the latest "xserver-common" in frozen, X started up with fvwm 
> as the default window-manager. I´ve checked /etc/X11/window-managers and 
> there´s fvwm95 with correct path and all as the first window-manager in there.
> 
> While I can switch to fvwm95 on-the-fly my girl-friend, who also uses
> my pc, isn´t clueful enough to live without all the default apps and
> settings I installed with the (for her ;-) familiar interface of
> fvwm95.
> 
> I already "apt-get remove fvwm" completely, to the effect that X comes
> up with no window-manager at all :-( .  I´ve checked all the
> configuration files I could find, but to no effect.
> 
> The only other option I can think of is to apt-get remove fvwm95,
> apt-get install fvwm95, but that would just be working on the
> symptoms, not the cause...
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> TIA,
> &rw

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