Re: window-managers

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 08:35:24PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 
> I have just upgraded to potato. Previously, in slink, I had setup my
> window-managers file to start kde by default but now I get fvwm2 when
> I type startx. Why is this? The file still points to kde as the first
> option - is there a different config file for this in potato?

Potato now uses the "alternatives" system to configure the default
window manager. Basically it's bunch of symlinks. First, you have
/usr/bin/x-window-manager which points to
/etc/alternatives/x-window-manager which points to the real window
manager.  The easy way to update this system is to run
"update-alternatives --config x-window-manager" as root.  It should
list all of the available (or registered) window managers from which you
can select.  If you have compiled a window manager in /usr/local then
the system won't know about it and you'll need to register this window
manager.  Confused?  You can try to decipher the man pages for
update-alternatives... (Despite the somewhat confusing system, it now
brings X in line with many other programs that provide a generic
"something", like editor, emacs, web server, etc...)

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