update_wdm_wmlist(8)

✨ update_wdm_wmlist ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to update_wdm_wmlist(8) — it's a lil Debian GNU/Linux section-8 manual page and it's here to fix up your window manager list for wdm. 🎀 she's small, she's useful, she's lowkey iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

update_wdm_wmlist — updates the window manager list for wdm 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

update_wdm_wmlist [ window managers ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea, bestie: update_wdm_wmlist uses update-alternatives to go peek at which window managers are actually available on your system 👀✨ — and then it updates the DisplayManager*wdmWm resource inside the wdm configuration file, which lives at /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config. no cap.

and like, you can pass a list of window managers as arguments, if you're feeling main character about it 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• wdm(1x) — go say hi 👋

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the script and this manpage were written by Marcelo Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org> — and then later rewritten to use update-alternatives by Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>. and wdm itself? written by Gene Czarcinski <genec@mindspring.com>. legends only, fr fr. 💜

k that's the whole page, babe — Debian Project, August 1998, mwah 💋 slay, go update those window managers bestie 🦋✨