On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 02:51:49PM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote: > > It seems that latest X in potato has removed the support for > /etc/X11/window-managers in Xsession. > So how does one start fvwm95 automatically from xdm ?? > > In documentation I found just the removal mentioned, > but no alternative: > > * debian/xfree86-common/Xsession: > - remove support for /etc/X11/window-managers; virtually every window > manager has migrated to the new alternatives method (Closes: #58224) > I believes they all moved to using the 'alternatives' setup. See /etc/alternatives and man update-alternatives. Basically it's a tangled web of symlinks allowing a bit of abstraction.
$ ls -l /etc/x-window-manager lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Mar 2 00:47 x-window-manager -> /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm-gnome* $ ls -l /usr/bin/x-window-manager lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jan 8 22:27 x-window-manager -> /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager* -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+