Re: changing window managers

[Joachim Fahnenmüller <jfahnenmueller@web.de>]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:48:42PM +0200, Thomas Jollans wrote:
> Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote:
> 
> >Sorry if the question is stupid, but: What is a session manager, and how 
> >does it
> >get involved?
> >
> >THX
> > 
> >
> AFAIK the session manager is a program that
> a) starts the programs of a desktop env (gnome needs 
> nautilus,metacity,gnome-panel and maybe more)
> b) starts certain other programs (e.g. in gnome: recovers a session). 
> for more detail : man xsm
> 
Cool: I have never used a session mgr, and I thought I don't have one, but:
joachim@debianpc:~$ which xsm
/usr/bin/X11/xsm

Thanks again,
-- 
Joachim Fahnenmüller