On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:42:44PM -0600, Kelly Black wrote: > In order to see if it was related to the window manager wmaker, I tried to > figure out how to change to another one. I saw some docs that mentioned > update-alternatives, but quickly got lost on how to drive it (if this is even > the tool to use). The update-alternatives looks more like a tool for other > scripts to call. ~$ update-alternatives --display x-window-manager x-window-manager - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker - priority 50 slave x-window-manager.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/wmaker.1x.gz Current `best' version is /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker. As root, `update-alternatives --config x-window-manager` will let you manually select the default window manager. However, for your purposes, you'd probably be better off to just right-click on the background, go to the 'WindowManagers' submenu, and switch window managers on the fly instead of mucking about with your default wm. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss