In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: > > After looking around some more I found out the x-session-manager works > > for startx, but it's not updated when new window managers are > > installed. The x-session-manager updates: > > /etc/alternatives/@x-session-manager
> Why should the session manager symlink be changed by a window manager? > > The x-window-manager is updated when new window managers are > > installed, so maybe @x-session-manager should link to > > @x-window-manager? > No - x-session-manager should point to a session manager, and > x-window-manager to a window manager, respectively. > If you have a ~/.xsession file, you may have specified a window manager > in it. I didn't have a ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc file. > Otherwise, odds are the symlink from /usr/bin/x-window-manager is > being used. Okay. Now I see there is a difference between a session manager and a window manager. Apparently some window managers have session managers and need them to run properly and some window managers don't use them. The problem was I installed a window manager that didn't install a session manager and since the old session manager was still installed the new window manager wouldn't run. I also found it interesting that ~/.xinitrc takes precedence over ~/.xsession, and x-session-manager takes precedence over x-window-manager. So it doesn't work to use both ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc. The best option seems to be to put the session manager in ~/.xsession and not use ~/.xinitrc. And if there is no session manager, to put the window manager in ~/.xsession. Either that or learn how to configure x-session-manager and x-window-manager. Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
