WMANAGERRC-UPDATE(1) BSD General Commands Manual WMANAGERRC-UPDATE(1)NAMEwmanagerrc-update — update your wmanager settings automatically
SYNOPSISwmanagerrc-updateDESCRIPTION
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) configura‐
tion 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 ALSOwmanager(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 writ‐
ten 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⟩
BSD May 22, 2008 BSD
