Re: Lost window manager?

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:40:51AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:

 > That said, the update-alternatives still seem to be the correct way
 > of changing the wm. 

 System wide, yes.  But the key in the gconf database is a per-user
 setting.

 > Sure, but gnome-wm is a gnome thingy which know nothing about how
 > debian works.

 Well, that's the problem.  After sending my previous mail I looked at
 the gnome-wm script (yes, it's a script, I should have looked at it
 sooner).  It basically does this:

    if there's a WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable, it uses that.

    if not, it uses the x-window-manager alternative

    if that's foobared, then fall back to a number of funny choices

 And _then_ write the result to the key I mentioned earlier.  That means
 you can change the key using gconf or whatever, and it will get
 friendly overwritten by gnome-wm.

 > >  That still doesn't help me with the other problem: gnome-session not
 > >  starting a window manager at all.  I though gnome-session just ran
 > >  gnome-wm, but somehow I managed to convice it not to do that.

 > Did you try the update-alternatives thingy ?

 No because I (now) know that that will change the window manager
 gnome-wm picks, but my problem is that no window manager is starting at
 all, not that I want to switch from one to the other.

 The fact that I can't change the window manager is secondary.  I'd like
 to know what I did that made gnome-session stop launching a window
 manager in the first place.

-- 
Marcelo