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Bug#167004: add ewmh-x-window-manager alternative, drop EWMH section from priority, add virtual package ewmh-x-window-manager



On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:41:44PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> It turns out that just bumping the priority of x-window-managers like
> metacity which implement the EWMH spec isn't enough.  Other window
> managers like twm still take priority, mainly because they support the
> Debian menu system directly (which metacity doesn't, it relies on the
> GNOME panel to do it).
> 
> So I think what we really need is an ewmh-x-window-manager, that
> packages like gnome-wm can use to explicitly invoke a window manager
> which supports the EWMH spec.

Ugh, I don't like this.  Please just play with the scoring of EWMH
support instead.

"Depends: metacity | ewmh-x-window-manager | x-window-manager"?  Ugh.

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