On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 08:35:24PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > I have just upgraded to potato. Previously, in slink, I had setup my > window-managers file to start kde by default but now I get fvwm2 when > I type startx. Why is this? The file still points to kde as the first > option - is there a different config file for this in potato?
Potato now uses the "alternatives" system to configure the default window manager. Basically it's bunch of symlinks. First, you have /usr/bin/x-window-manager which points to /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager which points to the real window manager. The easy way to update this system is to run "update-alternatives --config x-window-manager" as root. It should list all of the available (or registered) window managers from which you can select. If you have compiled a window manager in /usr/local then the system won't know about it and you'll need to register this window manager. Confused? You can try to decipher the man pages for update-alternatives... (Despite the somewhat confusing system, it now brings X in line with many other programs that provide a generic "something", like editor, emacs, web server, etc...) -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
