[Sussex] Default window manager strangeness after upgrade

[John Crowhurst]

> Window Maker came up as default after the upgrade & I thought I could
> easily get the default back to Icewm, but creating a .xinitrc file &
> .xsession (& adding "exec icewm" or "exec /usr/bin/icewm") did nothing
> to  stop the irrepressible Window Maker. Xdm disappeared after the
> upgrade & I  was using startx (actually quite like that idea), but I
> re-installed xdm  (thinking that might help with the default window
> manager).

Try hacking at it by placing/changing the symlink in:

/etc/X11/xinit/

So that xinitrc.icewm is linked to xinitrc

> I also got rid of quite a lot of Gnome bits after I tried Gnome Panel &
> couldn't get rid of it. This is quite apart from the fact that it had a
> fish where a clock would have been handy.

You might find that some of the startup files have been customised to load
their configuration from other files, like x-window-manager. Make sure its
not present in your .xinitrc or .Xsession

> In the meantime, I've uninstalled Window Maker so that Icewm is the only
>  window manager on my system, so that sort of solves the problem, but it
>  would still be nice to know how to do it properly.

That's a different approach, and never the best way to fix a problem.
System wide changes can be made in /etc/X11, local changes usually happen
in the user's home directory.

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John