Re: window-managers
It's not registered, so any ideas how to do this? I can't get anywhere
with it.
"Eric G . Miller" wrote:
>
> 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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