Re: best window manager

[Brennan W Stehling <brennan offwhite net>]

Yes, when I installed blackbox it said it could understand gnome hints.  I
will have to muck with it some more.

Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Tom Gilbert wrote:

> * Brennan W Stehling (brennan@offwhite.net) wrote:
> > I tried a few variations and eventually went in with gnome-session and
> > went in with enlightenment.  Then I used the gnome control panel to select
> > blackbox as my windowmanager.  Then I pressed the try button and it
> > switched over nicely.  I saved everything and logged out.
> > 
> > When I logged back in only the panel would show up and no blackbox.  It
> > did not work properly.  I saw some error messages after I logged out which
> > said something about not supporting gnome, but I thought blackbox had the
> > hints in place.
> > 
> > Does anyone know about that?
> 
> Things to check:
> o Blackbox is installed ok (check by having just "exec blackbox" in
>   your .xsession and see if it comes up...
> o You aren't doing something odd like panel & ; gnome-session
> o You have a reasonably recent blackbox with any gnome-compliancy
>   patches in place.
> 
> > I guess I am still hunting for a good gnome compatible window manager.
> 
> I personally can never tear myself away from Enlightenment, but I've
> tried Sawmill, and it's okay if you like lithp...
> 
> Tom.
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