Re: choose the default display manager
I can't figure that out! I summarize the previous state:
1.) console says: kdm and wdm are started (kdm because of the
"false" value in the conf-script, wdm because it's the default-display-
manager)
2.) kdm takes over and runs kde. According to pstree and ps no wdm
is running.
What I did:
1.) I set the default display manager to kdm
2.) I set update-alternatives --set x-window-manager /usr/bin/kwin
which should be kde.
What happens:
1.) console says kdm is started
2.) But it's not kdm, I get a login window from another DM
3.) When I log in I get a gnome session, which I never selected and
according to pstree no wdm is running but there are lots of "gnome-"
things...
And of course, if I set the default-display-manager back to wdm it's
wdm *and* kdm that get started again and I get my kde session.
Any other advice? Thanks again!
Hans-Joerg v. Mettenheim
On 3 May 2005 at 15:53, Jon Dowland wrote:
> hjvm@freenet.de wrote:
>
> > But when I set the DM to kdm in /etc/X11/default-display-manager I get
> > a totally different *window* manager, i. e. I get XFCE4 instead of
> > KDE. That's even stranger as I thought that kdm would start kde. But
> > it obviously doesn't. In this case at least only kdm is started and
> > not wdm.
> >
> > So how could I set which window manager is started by the DM?
>
> That's easier (I think): controlled by update-alternatives.
>
> # update-alternatives --list x-window-manager
>
> shows you what it can be, and
>
> # update-alternatives --set x-window-manager <path>
>
> where <path> is one of the options from the first command.
>
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