Re: gnome-session + enlightenmet

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

add|ct|on wrote:
> 
> "Allan M. Wind" wrote:
> 
> > On 1999-05-22 12:20, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> >
> > > It will start the panel and window manager. You change the
> > > windowmanager through the gnome control center.
> >
> > That doesn't seem to work here.
> >
> > /Allan
> 
> according to the gnome user's guide (which you can read on the web somewhere at
> http://www.gnome.org) you have to set a WINDOW_MANAGER variable in your .bashrc or
> .bash_profile. something like:
> 
> export WINDOW_MANAGER="/usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment"
> 
> (I believe its WINDOW_MANAGER, if not check the faq and gnome user's guide. i had it
> working at one time til gnome died on me. my .xinitrc was simply exec gnome-session,
> and i had the appropriate variable set for the window manager.)
> 
> hope  this helps.
> 
> -add|ct|on


	I have to agree with Allan, I had similar problems too,
especially with Enlightenment.  I'm running a recent slink/potato
system.
	When I installed Gnome (from potato), it would work, but it was
automatically loading Enlightenment, which was also on my sys. 
*Nothing* that I could do would stop it from running Enlightenment
instead of my choice (fvwm2 minus the pager and taskbar).  During
this time nothing I did to the control panel's window manager
selection widget, to .xsession, to ~/.gnome/default.wm, or to the
env var WINDOW_MANAGER would change anything.  I finally purged
Enlightenment, and afterward I added an entry for fvwm2 in the WM
selection widget.  Now, it would work as advertised.  The weird
thing was there never was an entry for E in this widget, yet if E
was on the system it would be the wm that Gnome ran.  IIRC, there
was only one entry in this widget by default, and that was for
Window Maker.  With E off the system, this selection widget now
works:  I can use it to switch between fvwm2 and WMaker. 
Something hard-coded was calling E if it was present.
	Actually I would have liked to get E going, but I never could
figure out how to disable all the icons it was putting on the
screen, over the top of Gnome's panel.  E's online help needs more
help I think. :-)  With all those (redundant) icons, things were
just too cluttered.


-- 
Ed C.