On 2021-07-02 at 11:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 11:14:22AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> What package, or packages, set(s) up the x-window-manager >> alternative and define(s) symlinks for it? > > I take it from the content that I snipped that you're looking for a > list of window managers, and not a technical explanation of how the > alternatives system works. Not exactly - I was looking for anything that would set up that symlink, without necessarily assuming that every window-manager package would do it separately. If they do, however, then yes, that list - or at least a statement that "every window manager sets this up directly, independently of all the others" - would be the answer I was looking for. > For a list of x-window-managers, you can use: > > apt-cache showpkg x-window-manager > > Ignore everything up until "Reverse Provides:". That's the part you > want. I actually got to the point of looking for this technique during my own searching, but hadn't landed on it. Thanks for the pointer! In the end, a conversation with someone else ended up leading me to the conclusion that in fact what I hypothesized at the end of my previous mail is correct: it was set up by some previous package, I adjusted it to add the alternative for my locally-built but non-packaged WM, and then the package that originally set it up got removed. So I've just created it manually on the new machine, rather than dancing around with installing and removing packages I don't actually intend to use. It's up and running now. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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