Re: update-alternatives and window-manager and display-manager
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:55:14AM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> 1) I think that the display mangaer should be choosen using
> update-alternatives --confi x-display-manager
> (btw: how is it made now?)
The startup scripts for the various display managers pay attention to the
contents of the file /etc/X11/default-display-manager
> 2) I have gnome installed, but in
> update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
> gnome it is not displayed
Gnome isn't a window manager, and has never been a window manager.
> So i think that the update-alternatives method is not fully supported.
You'd be wrong.
> I think that * update-alternatives is a good facility
It isn't, really.
> * 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.
> 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.
How do you expect a user to be changing the alternatives system? They
don't have the power to do so.
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