Re: Problems with gnome window hints

[Manish Vachharajani <mvachhar vger rutgers edu>]

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Marcus Brubaker wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Manish Vachharajani wrote:
> 
> > I am having a small problem with gnome window hints.  I am running E from
> > CVS so it should support gnome.  I am running the WM from the session
> > manager.  
> > 
> > Here is the problem.  If the panel starts first, it checks to see if a
> > gnome compliant wm exists, which doesn't, since E hasn't had time to start
> > up yet, and so it does not set the gnome window hints for the layer,
> > state, etc. 
> > 
> > How would I work around this problem?  Is there any way to force the
> > session manager to start clients in a specific order?
> 
> I have been having some problems with GNOME SM and E recently, but I think
> this is how it is supposed to work.  The only thing you have in your
> .xinitrc (or according config file on your system) is gnome-session.  Once
> the gnome-session starts you explicitly run E.  If you properly log out of
> gnome (via panel) and then start things over again, gnome-session SHOULD
> start up E again in time for the panel to detect it.  Of course, this
> could be all wrong and the reason why things are screwing up for me, but I
> think it's right.
> 

No, no, E does start up again, just not in time for the panel to detect it
so that it will set gnome  window hints.

Manish Vachharajani               Some Haiku: A crash reduces
<mvachhar@vger.rutgers.edu>                   your expensive computer
                                              to a simple stone - Unknown