On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:14:56AM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > Re:Hi! > > Have you tried to set the x-window-manager link in /etc/alternatives to > point on fvwm95? > > I'm not quite sure wether the /etc/X11/window-managers file is still used.
its not, the last traces of this file have been obliterated in the latest upgrade to the XFree packages. see the xfree86 changelog. update-alternatives --config x-window-manager should allow you to set the default windowmanager, if not just make sure /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager is a symlink to the preferred windowmanager. > Martin > > On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > After updating to the latest "xserver-common" in frozen, X started up with > > fvwm > > as the default window-manager. I´ve checked /etc/X11/window-managers and > > there´s fvwm95 with correct path and all as the first window-manager in > > there. > > > > While I can switch to fvwm95 on-the-fly my girl-friend, who also uses > > my pc, isn´t clueful enough to live without all the default apps and > > settings I installed with the (for her ;-) familiar interface of > > fvwm95. > > > > I already "apt-get remove fvwm" completely, to the effect that X comes > > up with no window-manager at all :-( . I´ve checked all the > > configuration files I could find, but to no effect. > > > > The only other option I can think of is to apt-get remove fvwm95, > > apt-get install fvwm95, but that would just be working on the > > symptoms, not the cause... > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > TIA, > > &rw > > -- > Win2k: "It's not so much that it's only 65,000 bugs, > it's just that they stopped at 65,535 to prevent an overflow." > > For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Ethan Benson
