On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:55:14AM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > 1) I think that the display mangaer should be choosen using > update-alternatives --confi x-display-manager > (btw: how is it made now?)
The startup scripts for the various display managers pay attention to the contents of the file /etc/X11/default-display-manager > 2) I have gnome installed, but in > update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > gnome it is not displayed Gnome isn't a window manager, and has never been a window manager. > So i think that the update-alternatives method is not fully supported. You'd be wrong. > I think that * update-alternatives is a good facility It isn't, really. > * there should be a unified method for chosing window/desktop manager or > whatever, since it gives the users some chances to do things without much > pain, and make easy to document and learn how things works No, actually a user should never be messing with the alternatives system. Further, users don't need to know and shouldn't have to know how things work. > So, is update-alternatives the standard method? If not which is the > standard method? The standard method is to actually launch the environment you want. Gdm provides session files for this purpose, as does KDM. Xdm uses your ~/.xsession file. How do you expect a user to be changing the alternatives system? They don't have the power to do so. -- Marc Wilson | Once, adv.: Enough. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dictionary" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
