Default Applications

[Mark Fraser]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 07:38:49 Terence Simpson wrote:
> Mark Fraser wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > A couple of things leading on from this:
> >
> > 1) My default mail software at the moment is Kmail, if I wanted Firefox
> > to open mailto: links in Kmail would I just change mozilla-thunderbird
> > above to kmail?
> >
> > 2) I thought I'd have a look to see what else I could configure this way
> > and came across sudo update-alternatives --config x-window-manager,
> > imagine my surprise when I found it was defaulted to metacity. Is this
> > what it should be for Kubuntu, if not why is it set as that on mine?
>
> That's not the default for KDE, it should be set to kwin. That being
> said the script that starts KDE when you login starts kwin directly
> anyway (or it should).
> Easy way to check, press Ctrl-Esc (or KMenu > KSysGuard > Processes tab)
> and see if kwin or matacity is running.

I've changed it now and Kwin is running, but what would have caused metacity 
to become the default and what would have installed it?