Re: In woody wdm garbles list of window managers, shows only a few

[TR <tony@the-sphere.org>]

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:06:02PM -0400, TR wrote:
> > Line from /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config:
> > 
> > DisplayManager*wdmWm:
> > afterstep:amiwm:asclassic:blackbox:default:enlightenment:fluxbox:fl
> > wm:fvwm2:fvwm95:gnome-session:gwm:icewm:icewm-lite:ion:kde2:larswm:
> > lwm:metacity:olvwm-x-window-manager:olwm-x-window-manager:pwm:qvwm:
> > ratpoison:sapphire:sawfish:twm:uwm:wm2:wm2:wmaker:xfwm
> > 
> 
> There is a bug in woody's wdm that artificially limits the number of
> windowmanagers it will display.  This was fixed by upstream version
> 1.22, so the version in sid and sarge does not have this limitation.
> 
> You could change the woody version locally and recompile it.  That
> might be easier than backporting the sid version, but maybe not.  The
> code you care about is in src/Login.c.  Look for WmStr.
> 
> noah
> (wdm maintainer)

Thanks Noah, great.