Re: Potato - update-alternatives (Ian Jackson) and window managers - doubt (and Slink to Potato Success)
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:11:19AM -0300, Taupter wrote:
> I compiled gnome, wmaker and a large bunch of X-related software, and I
> was using a file in the /etc/X11/ (I can't remember its name, since it
> was deleted during the upgrade) to set my default window manager to
> /usr/local/bin/gnome-session.
>
> When I restarted my computer and ran X (startx), I was in front of a
> tiny almost-unuseable window manager. Digging the scripts I found one
> symlink (/etc/alternatives/x-window-manager) pointing to that ugly wm. I
> removed that symlink, created a new one pointing to
> /usr/local/bin/gnome-session. startx went fine.
> Till I restarted the computer.
> Then, once again, that link was set to /usr/bin/X11/vtwm . What a mess.
Try: $ update-alternatives config x-window-manager
> I was poking update-alternatives, but didn't find a way to point my
> default window manager to /usr/local/bin/gnome-session.
> Yes I did read the man 8 update-alternatives, but it was a bit confusing
> to me (as I think it is a bit confusing to anyone but the man writer aka
> Ian Jackson), since it was not sufficiently explanatory (at least to me.
> Shame on me...).
This takes a little more work, since you'll have to '--install' the
local version first. But, since there are pretty current versions of
gnome in potato you might use those. However,
$ update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-window-manager \
x-window-manager /usr/local/bin/gnome-session 50 \
--slave /usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz \
x-window-manager.1.gz /usr/local/share/man/man1/gnome-session.1x.gz
might be close to what you want.
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