Having a way to set default X session manager
Hello, Currently when GRML is installed to HD it creates the user home directory with a .xinitrc file with a window manager (looking closer at alternatives it seems this really should be called x session manager). This makes it impossible for a system wide default window manager to be set. I remember that slackware offered a feature where a default system window manager could be set and such a feature would be useful in GRML. Obviously should a user want to use something other than the default then they can do so by running grml-x or manually create the ~/.xinitrc file.
Would it be possible to add such a feature?
Michael Whapples
* Michael Whapples mwhapples@aim.com [20090803 01:30]:
Currently when GRML is installed to HD it creates the user home directory with a .xinitrc file with a window manager (looking closer at alternatives it seems this really should be called x session manager). This makes it impossible for a system wide default window manager to be set. I remember that slackware offered a feature where a default system window manager could be set and such a feature would be useful in GRML. Obviously should a user want to use something other than the default then they can do so by running grml-x or manually create the ~/.xinitrc file.
Would it be possible to add such a feature?
How about running:
update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
and using x-window-manager as window manager in ~/.xinitrc then?
regards, -mika-
* Michael Prokop mika@grml.org [20090803 01:38]:
- Michael Whapples mwhapples@aim.com [20090803 01:30]:
Currently when GRML is installed to HD it creates the user home directory with a .xinitrc file with a window manager (looking closer at alternatives it seems this really should be called x session manager). This makes it impossible for a system wide default window manager to be set. I remember that slackware offered a feature where a default system window manager could be set and such a feature would be useful in GRML. Obviously should a user want to use something other than the default then they can do so by running grml-x or manually create the ~/.xinitrc file.
Would it be possible to add such a feature?
How about running:
update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
and using x-window-manager as window manager in ~/.xinitrc then?
JFTR: Michael mailed me off-the-list and I implemented the according parts so x-window-manager is our default setting in ~/.xinitrc now. See http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue716 for details (bug will be closed by upload of a new grml-live version which implements the update-alternatives handling for x-window-manager).
regards, -mika-
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