Bug#167004: add ewmh-x-window-manager alternative, drop EWMH section from priority, add virtual package ewmh-x-window-manager
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 18:00, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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.
Ok, Christian said he's going to put together a patch.
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