On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 02:10:03PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > Thanks Camaleón and Johan for your suggestions. > > For reference, here's what happened: > > Camaleón: i did try the update-alternatives path, including the > --display option to check. It reports wmaker, but has no > effect otherwise that i can tell. > > The idea of choosing a window manager a login time is > intriguing, but for my system (6.0.4 "squeeze") there > doesn't seem to be an option to do this. > > Johan: I tried the gui method you suggested for changing > the wm (and i believe your path was correct). This time there > was an effect, but not much and sort of the wrong one :( > What happened was that the screen drawing shifted upwards, > as if it were no longer taking into account the menu bar along > the top of the entire screen. So a few things had their top > parts hidden by this shift, but none of the wmaker stuff seemed > to be present. > > But it is very valuable nevertheless --- i imagine that i have to > disable the entire gnome apparatus somehow (but don't know > whether wmaker is savvy enough to manage under those > circumstances). > > Thanks in advance for any other advice anybody may have. > > (Is anybody actually using WindowMaker on this list? Maybe > my problem is i'm posting to the wrong list? :) But thanks > everybody for your help because you certainly are very helpful!) > > dan > On Squeeze, which uses GDM3, you need to enter your login name before the option to change your "session" appears. Once you choose a different window manager, that will be the default for that user.
I use Fluxbox, and GDM3 logs me into a Fluxbox session every time. I did not change anything with the update-alternatives command (mostly because the other users on this system default to Gnome). -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120425213648.gb13...@aurora.owens.net