In article <[🔎] 20050905201439.GA26723@alcopop.org> you wrote:
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote:
After looking around some more I found out the x-session-manager works
for startx, but it's not updated when new window managers are
installed. The x-session-manager updates:
/etc/alternatives/@x-session-manager
Why should the session manager symlink be changed by a window manager?
The x-window-manager is updated when new window managers are
installed, so maybe @x-session-manager should link to
@x-window-manager?
No - x-session-manager should point to a session manager, and
x-window-manager to a window manager, respectively.
If you have a ~/.xsession file, you may have specified a window manager
in it.
I didn't have a ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc file.
Otherwise, odds are the symlink from /usr/bin/x-window-manager is
being used.
Okay. Now I see there is a difference between a session
manager and a window manager. Apparently some window managers
have session managers and need them to run properly and some
window managers don't use them. The problem was I installed
a window manager that didn't install a session manager and
since the old session manager was still installed the new
window manager wouldn't run.
I also found it interesting that ~/.xinitrc takes precedence
over ~/.xsession, and x-session-manager takes precedence over
x-window-manager. So it doesn't work to use both ~/.xsession
and ~/.xinitrc. The best option seems to be to put the session
manager in ~/.xsession and not use ~/.xinitrc. And if there is
no session manager, to put the window manager in ~/.xsession.
Either that or learn how to configure x-session-manager and
x-window-manager.