gnome2 and window managers
Last night, after rebuilding Branden's XFree86 4.2.0 test packages
with some additional r128 patches, I noticed that the reinstallation
of the XFree86 packages caused the window manager to be reset to twm.
Having gdm2 installed, what I noticed was that when I logged in,
the Gnome 2 splash screen would show that the sawfish window manager
was loading. However when X started to open up windows for the gnome
session each item was in its own twm window (the panel dock, the
nautilus2 desktop, the menu bar, etc). I was able to fix this by
changing the symlink for /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager from twm
to sawfish.
What worries me is the fact that Gnome2 thought that sawfish was
the window manager. It seems like we have some sort of disconnect here.
Also is it possible that Gnome2 may be trying to start up sawfish twice
when it is set as the x-window-manager? I noticed that Gnome2 seems to
take a little longer to start up than 1.4 did and am wondering if we
have any glitches in the window manager startup sequence. Thanks in
advance for any comments.
Jack
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