Re: The windowmanager startup issue
- From: Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe orcus priv at>
- To: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: The windowmanager startup issue
- Date: 17 Mar 1999 21:39:38 +0100
Hi,
>>>>> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:11:51 +0100
>>>>> Jan Gentsch <gentsch@ifm.uni-hamburg.de> said:
Jan> For the SuSE rpms we have been using a setup, which if you start
Jan> up gnome for the first time, scans the available windowmanagers
Jan> and prompts the user to choose one. I would suggest to integrate
Jan> something of that kind formerly into gnome, using a small gnome
Jan> programm (right now we are using tcl).
I think the wm-properties-capplet interface would suffice for that. We
just need to modify the call to wm-p-c in the default.session, and
perhaps wm-p-c itself a bit, so that it starts in "No WM running"
state, and you can choose your favourite from a list of detected ones.
Robbe
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