Thank you all for the many replies. but there is no x-window-manager, only: /etc/alternatives/WindowMaker -> /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker-debian
but there is no WindowMaker-debian at all. I tried to manually redefine the symlink to point to /usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox with ln -s WindowMaker /usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox but got the msg "blackbox exists". what should I do? thank you Ben Craig Brozefsky wrote: > Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Benjamin F. Zhou said: > > > My question is: where is the file which controls which wm to start when > > > I type startx from a console? > > > > /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager is a symlink to your default wm. > > You should manage this symlink with the update-alternatives command, > not manually tho. > > The easiest thing to do is: > > update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > > If the window-manager you want is not listed as available you can > install it with: > > update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-window-manager \ > x-window-manager /usr/bin/<thewmiwant> PRIORITY > > Where PRIORITY is a number higher than the highest existing priority > for the x-window-manager alternative. You can ge ta list of > priorities with: > > update-alternatives --display x-window-manager > > -- > Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Lisp Web Dev List http://www.red-bean.com/lispweb > --- The only good lisper is a coding lisper. ---
