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Re: Window Manager + Gnome2 Startup



On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 23:13, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Don, 2002-09-05 at 00:01, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > On Die, 2002-09-03 at 20:05, Johannes Rohr wrote: 
> > > 
> > > There is a gconf key
> > > "/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current", which for some
> > > reason pointed to "wmaker" until I changed it manually. No idea why.
> > > Maybe this is part of the problem.
> > 
> > > My friend upgraded to GNOME2 today and experienced the same problems;
> > > for him, this key was empty but the key 'default' in the same path
> > > contained '/usr/bin/wmaker'. Could that be the reason or at least
> > > related to why WindowMaker is started the first time?
> > 
> > Read the thread called "How do I switch to Sawfish??" here :
> > 
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-September/thread.html
> 
> I have, what do you think I'd learn from reading it again? That key
> contained that after he had switched to metacity (via sawfish, didn't
> worl directly from WindowMaker as pointed out before).

The gconf key is only there to read, it's what the
gnome-xsettings-daemon thinks is the window manager currently running.

The window manager has to be switched the "hard-way" (killall
my-current-wm ; my-new-wm &), and saved in the session.

That's the only way to switch WMs in gnome right now.

cheers

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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