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Re: lightdm's "Default Xsession"?



On Vi, 24 oct 14, 09:33:59, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> On 24/10/14 at 10:17am, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Jo, 23 oct 14, 19:38:15, John Conover wrote:
> > > 
> > > I use two WM, (xfce and fvwm.) Lightdm's "Default Xsession" is fvwm2.
> > > 
> > > How do I change lightdm's "Default Xsession" to xfce?
> > 
> > I prefer to do this at system level (i.e. will work for any DM):
> > 
> >     update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
> 
> That's smarter but doesn't always work.
> As an example I always use awesome and sometimes i3 but the command above returns only xfce4-session
> ie no alternatives.

Those probably only install themselves as x-window-manager so this 
should work instead

    update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

Not exactly sure how display managers handle defaults when you have 
both. Per user there is also ~/.dmrc.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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