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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