WMANAGERRC-UPDATE(1)

📦 version 0.3.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 wmanagerrc-update — the girlies' guide 💖

okay so this is a General Commands Manual page for wmanagerrc-update, and bestie, it's literally the little helper that keeps your window manager list cute and current ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

wmanagerrc-update — update your wmanager settings automatically 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

wmanagerrc-update

that's it. no flags. no args. she just goes 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so the wmanagerrc-update program creates or updates the ~/.wmanagerrc file, and it fills it with a list of all the X11 window managers currently installed on your system. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

now, on systems that don't have a convention for registering X window managers, wmanagerrc-update keeps it super simple: it just copies the contents of the ~/.wmanagerrc.user file straight over to ~/.wmanagerrc. copy-paste, no thoughts, head empty 🦋

but on systems that do register the installed X window managers? that's when she starts working. the wmanagerrc-update program adds all of them to the wmanager(1) configuration, so they're available to you soon after installation. so convenient, so slay 🔥

currently, only Debian GNU/Linux and similar systems that use the update-alternaties(8) mechanism are supported. that's the vibe. that's the whole list. 💀

locally installed window managers — plus anything that isn't registered as an alternative for x-window-manager(1) — can be added to the file ~/.wmanagerrc.user, in the .wmanagerrc format. wanna know the deets? go read the wmanager(1) README file, which is usually chilling at /usr/share/doc/wmanager/README.gz. it's giving documentation, bestie 📚

here's the ordering tea though, because it matters ☕: the wmanagerrc-update program uses the entries first from ~/.wmanagerrc.user, and then from the registered window managers, in the order of update-alternatives(8) priorities.

and if you're a control freak (affectionate 💜) and that order isn't serving? you can override it. just list the entries in the order you want them in ~/.wmanagerrc.order, separated by whitespace. your list, your rules, main character energy fr fr ✨

😭 BUGS 😭

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

translation: if you run two of her at the same time, they will fight and one of them will eat your config. don't do that. not a vibe. 🙈

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read those too, iykyk 💖

🌈 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. a whole glow-up journey, honestly 🧚

👑 AUTHORS 👑

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

okay and that's the whole page, bestie!! this came to you from Debian, dated May 22, 2008 💖✨ go update your window managers, you absolute icon 🎀🦋💅

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