wmanager-loop command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

wmanager-loop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wmanager-loop: command not found

Solutions to wmanager-loop: command not found

How To Fix wmanager-loop: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wmanager-loop is provided by wmanager package.

wmanager is:

wmanager is a small X11 application for selecting a window manager at X startup. wmanager looks for a file named ‘.wmmanagerrc’ in the user’s home directory which contains a list of window managers; you can create such a file with wmanagerrc-update. You can also use wmanager-loop that runs window managers chosen by the user until told to exit.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install wmanager

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install wmanager.

sudo apt -y install wmanager

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install wmanager

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix wmanager-loop command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.