Re: gnome2 and window managers
On 16 Jul 2002, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> From: Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@comlink.apc.org>
> Subject: Re: gnome2 and window managers
>
> Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
> > > My conclusion is that the gnome-session program should disregard
> > > Debian's x-window-manager and instead launch a gnome2-compatible WM
> > > (sawfish or metacity), if available and no user configuration is
> >
> > gnome-session is already build with --with-window-manager=sawfish
>
> Does this mean, that it starts sawfish by default as long as no user
> configuration is present? If yes, this must be new. I tried out Gnome
> 2 some 3 weeks ago and it always started up with x-window-manager
> (which is WindowMaker on my box).
>
> > > present yet. To make this possible, gnome-session2 should depend on
> > > sawfish2 or metacity.
> >
> > No, I disagree, we don't force anybody to use a special window manager.
>
> ... even though the others don't _work_ with Gnome 2?
>
> WindowMaker for instance displayed the Nautilus desktop as a window
> with a "close" button and the panel didn't show up at all, presumably
> because it was hidden by the desktop window. (can't verify it now,
Same with E :(
> since I've reverted to Gnome 1.4). Only with sawfish or metacity I was
> able to have a usable G2 desktop.
Kind regards,
Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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