[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Window Manager + Gnome2 Startup



On Don, 2002-09-05 at 00:36, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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.

Which key, 'current' or 'default'? What about the other one?


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

I know the theory; in practice, this doesn't seem to work for
WindowMaker -> metacity. WindowMaker -> sawfish -> metacity does the
trick.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



Reply to: