Re: FVWM: set fvwm default wm

From: Jan Exss <jan.exss_at_gpi.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:49:13 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote:

> I'd recently updated my debian/stable. After that, when I login to xdm,
> the wm is blackbox. I want to switch to fvwm, but I don't know how. How
> can I force to start fvwm?

Globally as root:

# update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

Then select /usr/bin/fvwm2 as the one with the highest priority.

As a regular user:

Check where fvwm2 is installed:

$ type fvwm2
fvwm2 is /usr/bin/fvwm2

Edit $HOME/.xsession like that:

$ cd
$ cp .xsession .xsession.old
$ echo '#!/bin/sh' > .xsession
$ echo 'exec /usr/bin/fvwm2' >> .xsession
$ chmod 755 .xsession

If you are using xdm that's all. If you are using gdm, select Xsession as
the login session.

Jan

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Received on Thu Oct 17 2002 - 15:50:24 BST

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