Re: gnome compliant window managers

[Jan Gentsch <gentsch ifm uni-hamburg de>]

SuSE rpms donīt depend on a particular windowmanager, but you are
prompted the first time you startup to choose one of the windowmanagers
available on the system (that assumes that at least on is installed, but
that assumption will hold true 99.9% of the time unless the person
operating the system nows what he is doing anyhow.

Jan

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> On 21 Mar 1999, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> >
> > I am also curious what other OS distributors (Debian, FreeBSD, etc)
> > have done in terms of dependencies between the various gnome packages
> > and WM's. Have you made gnome-core dependent on a specific window
> > manager, or have you found some more clever solution?
> >
> 
> I think the Debian guys have decided this is broken. :-) Jim Pick
> suggested writing a little "window manger selector" application which
> would be the default "window manger"; it would then exec a window manager
> and hopefully save it as the current one for the purposes of the control
> panel (which may just mean for the purposes of the user's session, I
> dunno).
> 
> Right now the Gnome deb's don't depend on any wm, but of course things
> won't work so well unless you have one.
> 
> So basically, problem not solved but it will be, hopefully.
> 
> Havoc
> 
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