[Sussex] Default window manager strangeness after upgrade

[Gavin Stevens]

Many thanks Thomas - I'll give this a try.

Gavin.

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:17:48 +0100 (BST), Thomas Adam 
<thomas_adam16 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  --- Gavin Stevens <starshine at gavmusic.uklinux.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> It will do, if you ensure that you have something like this:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> exec icewm
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and SET THE PERMS to:
>
> chmod 700 ~/.xsession
>
>> Any thoughts appreciated,
>
> See above. Oh yes, "x-window-system" is to do with the
> 'update-alternatives' scheme that debian uses for similar programs to 
> user
> preferences.
>
> -- Thomas Adam
>
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