Re: gnome-wm

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

Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@cs.hmc.edu> writes:

> On Oct 29, Colin Walters wrote:

> So I suggest we look at x-window-manager, and if it's metacity or
> sawfish, we accept that.  If not, we look for metacity or sawfish, and
> take one of them if present.  If neither are present, then we just use
> whatever is in x-window-manager.

> This sounds like a good short-term fix.  In the long run, would it
> be reasonable to create a new alternative named gnome-window-manager?
> This would be more maintainable as new NETWM-aware window managers
> become available.

For me this is simply a big hack because metacity doesn't support Debian
menu and can have a better priority. In some point some old window
manager like fvwm are better than metacity.

I'll not apply this hack.

Christian