On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:52:14PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > I had set up fvwm2 as x-window-manager (using update-alternatives) > but sawfish gets repeatedly set up as default window manager which is > very annoying becuase it causes window manager to exit when I try to > restart it. > > while testing the problem I have found out that when I apt-get remove > sawfish somebody sets the x-window-manager to auto mode, I get following > message: > > ---------------------------------------- > Removing sawfish ... > Removing manually selected alternative - switching to auto mode > dpkg - warning: while removing sawfish, directory `/var/lib/sawfish' not > empty so not removed. > ---------------------------------------- > > I guess it is caused by the following command in prerm script: > > update-alternatives --remove x-window-manager /usr/bin/sawfish > > is it a bug in update-alternatives? IMO it shouldn't switch back to > auto mode when I remove alternative (which is not currently selected). > Should I file a bug? > > Or should sawfish use something else? I checked few other WMs > (wmaker, fvwm) and they use the same command... That looks OK to me; I'm assuming 'auto mode' means that update-alternatives just picks the WM with the highest priority. What would you prefer it to switch to? If sawfish was the configure x-window-manager alternative, then u-a doesn't know what you'd prefer to use once it's gone... -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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