Re: update-alternatives and window-manager and display-manager
2005/8/26, Marcel Gschwandl <tautau@gmx.ch>:
> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 11:50 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
>
> > > I think that * update-alternatives is a good facility
> >
> > It isn't, really.
> IMHO it is.
Thnx fot the support Marcel, moreover i want to say that
update-alternatives is documented in Debian Reference Manual, and it
have a user interface, so it is not "internal".
>
> > > * there should be a unified method for chosing window/desktop manager or
> > > whatever, since it gives the users some chances to do things without much
> > > pain, and make easy to document and learn how things works
> >
> > No, actually a user should never be messing with the alternatives system.
> > Further, users don't need to know and shouldn't have to know how things
> > work.
> Ok, not the average user, but root. I don't think that Paolo wanted each
> user on the system to be able to change things with update-alternatives,
> I think with user he meant a person with Debian installed on his
> workstation, so this user would in fact have root privileges.
> >
> > > So, is update-alternatives the standard method? If not which is the
> > > standard method?
> >
> > The standard method is to actually launch the environment you want. Gdm
> > provides session files for this purpose, as does KDM. Xdm uses your
> > ~/.xsession file.
> Thats right, but update-alternatives would be the right place to set the
> default one (
>
In fact, so i think. Now just the last you install (kde, gnome, or
whatever) let you configure, throught his own script, display manager
and default desktop, and this is not good i think.
Moreover there are a lot of single user Debian computer, and since
Debian is one of the best distros about integrity and "out of the box"
working, it is not so strange that a Debian root is kind of novice and
doesn't know bash scripting, or other difficult things.
PAolo
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