Re: WindowMaker 0.16 & Gnome

[Zaphod Beeblebrox <hestgray ionet net>]

On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 10:55:44PM -0500, redhat@frostnet.coso.com wrote:
> I noticed in the changelog for WM .16 that some gnome support had been
> added. I did a configure w/ "--with-gnome=yes/no" as an option and later
> tried "--with-gnome=yes" just in case. This is supposed to add MWM hints
> for gnome, so that the pager will work w/ WM, but when I try to add the
> applet to gnome it complains about no XA_ extensions. So, does this gnome
> support do something other than what I had guessed at, or did I do it
> wrong?
> 
> Fwiw, running WM .16 and gnome .20.
> 
AFAIK, the pager requires the "IceWM extended hints", not the MWM hints. The MWM hints are used for things such as "hinting" that a window should have no decorations.