Hi Cormas, thank you for pointing to the critical place. Actually I set window-manager to contain the following lines right after the update:: /usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox /usr/bin/X11/blackbox /usr/bin/X11/olvm
now following your pointer, I opened Xsession. But it looks like I must be famliar with shelll programing before I could understand it. I replaced a few xterms with blackbox. but not sure if in the right place, with no result. I think, there should be a utility to set it interactively like the one asking for default window manager at the end of installation. regards Ben Cormac McGuinness wrote: > Hi > I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned the following: > /etc/X11/window-managers > The topmost entry is executed by Xsession (found in /etc/X11/Xsession) > but only if you don't have a .xsession file in your home directory. > The window-managers file specifies the default for all users. > Individuals must override this with their own .xsession files > (if the box is your own then you choose!) > > In the .xsession file, each line is acommand to execute (such as xterm etc.) > followed by an &. The last line must be the window-manager you want (but no &) > Note startx will look for your .xsession (also your .xinit) and then default > to the /etc/X11/Xsession > > I'm sure others can give a better decription, but that should suffice. > > Yours > Cormac > > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:43:52AM +0100, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > > Hi, > > > > with the right syntax for ln, I created the symlink WindowMaker pointing to > > blackbox. > > but that still does not lead to blackbox with a startx. I think there must > > be a > > .conf file somewhere which calls the default wm. Where should I look for it? > > > > thanks > > Ben > > > > -- > Cormac McGuinness ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
