"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:11:19AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > Problem: Desktop Managers like kdm and gdm support Window Manager > > listings so that users can choose what they want to login in using. > > There currently is no common way for wm's to register themselves with > > each/any/all dm's that may be installed on the system. > > Since every window manager / session manager is already registered with > the alternatives system, I see no reason why the other display managers > can't do what wdm already does. It includes a script, update_wdm_wmlist > which essentially just greps the output of 'update-alternatives > --display x-window-manager' and 'update-alternatives --display > x-session-manager' and populates its menu based on that.
Does this handle window managers which are installed after wdm, and if yes how? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
