Re: gnome-wm

[Brennan W Stehling <brennan offwhite net>]

Here is what I have as a script.  This is on FreeBSD, but shell scripts
work anywhere.  I looked and it appears to do a decent job of avoiding
absolute path issues, but you may want to make sure your X Windows bin
directory is in your path when this is run.  It probably already is.

#!/bin/sh

# The user can specify his prefered WM by setting the WINDOW_MANAGER
# environment variable.
#
# If this is not set, we search a list of known windowmanagers and use
# the first one that is found in the users's PATH
#

if [ -z "$WINDOW_MANAGER" ] ; then
  for wm in enlightenment icewm wmaker fvwm2 fvwm twm ; do
    check=`which $wm`
    if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
      WINDOW_MANAGER=$check
      break
    fi
  done
fi

# If no window manager can be found, we default to xterm

if [ -z "$WINDOW_MANAGER" ] ; then
  echo "WARNING: No window manger can be found."
  WINDOW_MANAGER=xterm
fi

# Store the selected WM so the wm-properties-capplet can find it

if [ ! -d $HOME/.gnome ] ; then
  mkdir $HOME/.gnome
  chmod 700 $HOME/.gnome
fi

rm -f $HOME/.gnome/default.wm
cat > $HOME/.gnome/default.wm <<EOF
[Default]
WM=$WINDOW_MANAGER
EOF

exec $WINDOW_MANAGER $*



Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com

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On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Brennan W Stehling wrote:

> If is is simply a shell script it will likely work with no problems.  If
> course, it needs to point to the proper binaries.  It should be easy
> enough to figure out.
> 
> Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
> projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com
> 
> fortune:
> "I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am.
> It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
> 
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Knut Neumann wrote:
> 
> > On Son, 12 Mär 2000 22:28:42 Joseph Anthony wrote:
> > > I just installed the deb files for gnome and there is no /usr/bin/gnome-wm 
> > > can some one tell me how to get his binary?
> > 
> > Its not actually a binary, but a script which enables the user to 
> > specify his preferred window-manager by setting the WINDOW_MANAGER 
> > environment variable.
> > 
> > It should have come with the gnome-core package (at least it did here, 
> > though its 1.1.x (dont remember) from cvs). So maybe you should 
> > double-check with the deb-file.
> > 
> > I might as well send you the gnome-wm script via mail - though I dont 
> > know what would happen if you simply put it in /usr/bin.
> > 
> > -knut
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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