On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 21:01:09 -0700, Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:19:08AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. You obviously haven't read the metacity > > manpage. > > Except, of course, that I have... especially the bit that describes > the--replace option. A small bit, I admit, but it's there. I suppose > it's rather appropriate that a window manager as featureless as > metacity has as featureless a man page. > > The alternatives system is not intended to control what window manager > Gnome uses. It's intended to provide a sane and safe default for X to > use to get a basic environment running. > > The fact that metacity registers an alternative for x-window-manager > is a bonus, not a requirement. The fact that newbies are told that > x-window-manager is the way to control what window manager they're > using is unfortunate. The GNOME packages in Debian use the x-window-manager alternative for it's window manager. If your alternative is set to twm, then X will invoke twm and then run the GNOME core (like taskbars, desktop) on top of it. If metacity is selected, then X will invoke metacity by default and run the GNOME core on top of *metacity*. This is exactly how it's supposed to be done, am I incorrect? -- Scott Christopher Linnenbringer [sl@eskimo.com] http://www.eskimo.com/~sl/info.txt [sl@moslug.org] [NOTE: THIS MESSAGE IS DIGITALLY SIGNED WITH GNUPG/PGP]
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