It's not registered, so any ideas how to do this? I can't get anywhere with it.
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > 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...)
