On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:17:11 -0400, Tony Uceda Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Changing my default desktop manager in Debian has proven a little more > cumbersome than I thought. I edited my > /etc/X11/default-display-manager file to the absolute path of where the > fluxbox binary file is.
fluxbox is a window manager, not a display manager. A window manager manages windows. A display manager provides a means of logging into the computer graphically and automatically starting X. To change the default display manager use dpkg-reconfigure <desired dm> rather than editing files which can go wrong when packages are updated/removed/added. To change window manager, put the binary name in the file ~/.xsession and choose the option 'Default' in your display manager. This is provided by (At least) wdm and xdm; I imagine gdm and kdm also provide a 'default' entry. Otherwise there may also be a default-window-manager symlink managed by update-alternatives; how that is honoured I don't know. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
