Re: starting a default window manager
[2000-08-16] Josep Llaurad? Selvas wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, suresh kumar wrote:
>> How to startup say fvwm95 on login *without* touching
>> users home director located files such as .xsession
>> etc.
> In a previous release of Debian (Slink) there was a text file
> (/etc/X11/window-managers) where you could write it your preferences about
> which window manager run when there wasn't any .xinit or .xsession into
> the home dir.
>
> In potato you can modify the /etc/X11/Xsession or the
> /usr/X11R6/bin/startx scripts to do the same, take a look into the both
> files and choose your custom system...
And in woody you use # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
if the windowmanager needs to change per user, you could install a
display manager such a wdm that gives a menu of the available choices.
--
Lee Maguire <lee@hexkey.co.uk> "traveling at the speed of time"
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