Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>]

>>>>> "Karsten" == kmself  <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:

Dave> The easy way would be
Dave> 
Dave> update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
Dave> 
Dave> and select wmaker from the list to be your default.

Karsten> For those who are interested, the following script (run in
Karsten> /etc/alternatives) will list all manually configured
Karsten> alternative links:

Beware!  This does _not_ quite work as expected.  It will update the
'master' link but not the 'slave' links (e. g. I bet "man editor" on
your system will still display the nvi manpage).  This is just a bug
in update-alternatives IMHO, and I reported it as such after
discussing these issues on the list some months ago, and I enclosed an
ugly perl hack that serves as a temporary replacement for me.

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