on 3/21/01 1:42 AM, Frédéric Bothamy mused:
> Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
>>
>> Hello Cooker,
>> I was just playing with MDK 8.0 beta 2 and tried to get my window
>> manager of choice (BlackBox) to stick as default and I ended up making an
>> .xinitrc file that reads:
>>
>> #! /bin/sh
>> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/BlackBox
>>
>> Is there another simpler way to do this that I'm missing?
>
> I don't usually use gdm, but I think that if you change the link
> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Default to BlackBox (was KDE for me), it
> should do the trick. Restart gdm afterwards. It works here, but
> only for new users, for the others, their last WM is always the
> default value.
I already tried this but to no avail - and I think on 7.2 (?) I remember it
being the last WM which made the default, but this doesn't seem to work in
8.0 beta 2. (For me anyway, which could very well be operator error; late
nights and over time at work are making me a little brain dead!)
Mike
