What package, or packages, set(s) up the x-window-manager alternative and define(s) symlinks for it?
I'm building a new computer, and setting up my (Debian-based) preferred configuration on it, and I've just discovered that there is no x-window-manager alternative defined; as a result, running startx results in invoking x-terminal-emulator instead, which brings up X in a very '80s-looking display and launches a single xterm. I could certainly just create the appropriate alternatives group myself, based on what's already in place on the system I'm preparing to replace with this new one, but I'd rather do this the right way unless there's no clear viable alternative. However, I haven't so far managed to identify what the Debian-native "right way" to get this set up is; on all the previous computers I remember building, once I installed the usual collection of make-X-available packages - specifically, that I remember, xinit (for startx) and xserver-xorg - this is one detail that Just Worked. I'm guessing that installing any of the various packages which have "Provides: x-window-manager" might do it, but the computer I'm preparing to replace doesn't have any of those installed, and still has the x-window-manager alternative. (I run a WM which I compile and install locally, rather than via a Debian package.) If I recall correctly, one of those packages probably *was* installed at some early point in the original installation of the being-replaced computer (now nearly a decade ago), so it's possible that installing it set up the alternatives group and then I just reconfigured that group to my preferred target, so removing the package didn't result in removing the group... in which case installing one such package temporarily should get things working, but it might make more sense to just create the alternatives group by hand. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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