Re: Some things stopping me from upgrading to Gnome2

[Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@cs.hmc.edu>]

On Nov 5, Magnus Therning wrote:

> Could be. Well, it fixed the lack of prefernces anyway. Now on to the
> next item: changing window manager. I just don't seem to be able to do
> it :-(

Try killing the current manager and starting the new one, then log out
and choose "save current setup" in the logout dialog (if you haven't
already tried this).

Also try setting the WINDOW_MANAGER variable in gnome-session's
environment.

> I am also curious where it finds the default. First I couldn't get out
> of BlackBox. Then I uninstalled it, and now I am stuck with WindowMaker.

The system-wide default should be the x-window-manager alternative,
which you can change with update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
(as root).

Has any decision been made for how to create a sane default here?
I still think that an ewmh-window-manager alternative is the best
solution...