Re: G2D problem with window managers

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

Julien Portalier <julien@portalier.com> writes:

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> Ok, the way to update the alternatives is to launch update-alternatives
> x-window-manager and to select sawfish or metacity, why not having
> something in the gnome-session debconf telling to modify it ? Or use it
> to modify the x-window-manager alternative ? Not everybody is a debian
> expert or a system administrator.

gnome-session2 use gconf see /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager
with gconf-editor but the current gdm doesn't use gconf, the n the
session configuration is still stored in ~/.gnome2/session

> In fact, it's true that with the G1.4 control center the user could
> easily choose the WM he wanted to be launched, that (good) feature has
> been removed, don't know why...

See above why.

Christian