On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:56:04AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: | | I read in the documentation that the deb for X 4.0.3 now uses | /etc/alternatives to find a window manager to use. I like | icewm-gnome so I have:
Dunno about that. | But when I bring up X, unless I start icewm manually, I end up | with -no- window manager. How are you brining up X? startx or gdm? With either one ~/.xsession is run. It is a shell script, and be sure _NOT_ to background the WM or session mamager you use -- once xsession terminates you are logged out (if you use gdm, you get a shell back if you used startx). Mine looks like -------------- gome-session -------------- and I use gnome's config to specify the WM. HTH, -D
