[Sussex] Default window manager strangeness after upgrade
John Crowhurst
fyremoon at fyremoon.net
Mon Apr 12 23:27:41 UTC 2004
> 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.
--
John
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