[vox-tech] debian X question

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:04:41 -0800


this really doesn't say anything.

suppose user1 wants enlightenment with gnome, user2 wants enlightenment
without gnome and user3 wants sawmill with gnome.

what command do they run?

or is the Debian Way to modify your ~/.xinitrc explicitly?


begin Henry House <hajhouse@houseag.com> 
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:58:16PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > hi there,
> > 
> > i've always controlled what window manager / desktop manager gets used by
> > editing .xinitrc directly.
> > 
> > i'm curious -- surely there must be a debian utility to set choose/select
> > such things.
> > 
> > what is it?
> 
> The default window manager in Debian is x-window-manager, which is managed by
> Debian's alternatives system.
> 
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