Re: Changing window managers The Debian Way (was Re: how NOT to work with debian)

On Monday 11 August 2003 4:39 am, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] > Isn't it The Debian Way to do: > # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Now that's useful. I was able to select icewm. A bit clumsy, but at least it runs. Mozilla, qcad, gimp, gnumeric, abiword (not used it before, but if OO

Re: Changing window managers The Debian Way (was Re: how NOT to workwith debian)

Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 21:11, Damien Solley wrote: Looks like X is running fine. You just need a window manager other than twm! from a console, edit your ~/.xinitrc file. For simplicity, this file can have just one line, reading: startkde That'll start kde (if it's installed

Re: Changing window managers The Debian Way

Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isn't it The Debian Way to do: > # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Only if you want to change the default for everyone on your system. If you're the only user of your machine and don't want to edit .xsession/.xinitrc, it's fine, but if you h