NAME

wmanagerrc-update — update your wmanager settings automatically

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The wmanagerrc-update program creates or updates the ~/.wmanagerrc file with a list of X11 window managers currently installed on the system. On systems that do not have a convention for registering X window managers, wmanagerrc-update simply copies the contents of the ~/.wmanagerrc.user file to ~/.wmanagerrc.

On systems that register the installed X window managers, the wmanagerrc-update program adds all of them to the wmanager(1) configuration so that they are available soon after installation. Currently, only Debian GNU/Linux and similar systems that use the update-alternaties(8) mechanism are supported. Locally installed window managers and things not registered as alternatives for x-window-manager(1) can be added to the file ~/.wmanagerrc.user in the .wmanagerrc format; see the wmanager(1) README file, usually /usr/share/doc/wmanager/README.gz, for more information. The wmanagerrc-update program uses the entries first from ~/.wmanagerrc.user, then from the the registered window managers, in the order of update-alternatives(8) priorities. You can override this by listing entries in wanted order in ~/.wmanagerrc.order, separated by whitespace.

BUGS

Concurrent wmanagerrc-update processes may clobber the .wmanagerrc file.

SEE ALSO

wmanager(1), wmanager-loop(1), update-alternatives(8)

HISTORY

The wmanagerrc-update program was written by Tommi Virtanen in 2000 and later modified by Peter Pentchev. This manual page was originally written in perldoc format by Tommi Virtanen in 2000, and converted to mdoc format and updated by Peter Pentchev in 2008.

AUTHORS

Tommi Virtanen ⟨tv@debian.org⟩
Peter Pentchev ⟨roam@ringlet.net⟩