Re: sawfish in gnome2
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:50, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:50:39PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> >
> > I found a variation of this on a list I follow (I forget which) when I
> > had the twm problem. There's a lot of heat but no fire on fixing this
> > permanently, as far as I've seen. Some of the core gnome programmers
> > aren't interested in making in easy to switch window managers, so this
> > is it. ;)
> >
>
> Well, that's not exactly true. We aren't interested in having the term
> "window manager" in the GUI (other than in a "power tweak" control
> panel that someone might write), but there is a plan for how it should
> be easy that should work with fvwm2 right now for example:
>
> $ fvwm2 -replace &
> $ gnome-session-save
>
> That's it. The problem is just that Sawfish doesn't have the -replace
> feature. -replace uses a standard mechanism defined in the ICCCM
> (WM_Sn selection).
>
Actually I do understand your reasoning: "Let's make a linux desktop
that simply works" and for what it's worth, support it.
People who hang out on lists like this (the 1% you've mentioned in other
contexts) will adapt, write, or find the workaround. ;)
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