\begin{Nick Croft}
> Yesterday I put (on the main machine) kdebase 4:2.1.0.1-5 and other
> k packages.
>
> I found it to be very intrusive, rather like a M$ product. It took
> over my desktop immediately without giving me the option of changing
> to it.
default window manager is now handled via /usr/bin/x-window-manager
(which is managed through the debian "alternatives" system).
so its possible that it changed "without giving you the option" if the
kde maintainer thought he should be a higher priority than windowmaker.
> Then it rewrote my menus, apparently overriding the menu-update
> script, such that only k-* programs appeared in the menus. I
> restarted X back into WindowMaker and found I only had half a dozen
> options in the menu. I apt-got something to activate the menu-update
> thingy, (which I thought was supposed to find everything with a menu
> file) but still only had the k-approved items and the new one.
> Since then I've purged all kstuff, but the menus are no better.
yuck.
check /usr/lib/menu/. there should be a file in there for everything
wanting a menu item.
you might also want to check /etc/menu-methods/. in there should be a
script for building each of the window-managers' menus. check kde
hasn't stomped on them or /usr/sbin/update-menus in some strange way
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