RE: GNOME Start Script

[Reinier Mostert <reinier mostert bigfoot com>]

Totally agree with Dick.  (see below! 8-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dick Porter [SMTP:dick@cymru.net]
> Sent:	22 April, 1998 10:30
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: GNOME Start Script
> 
> On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:06:56AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > 
> > The session manager does act as you say.  My goal is that it should
> be
> > the only program you have to run from your .xinitrc (or whatever).
> > 
> > However, the session manager does not yet start a window manager.
> > Adding that is trivial, but I don't know how to decide which one to
> > start.  Note that this is only relevant to the default
> configuration,
> 
> Why not pass the wm to run as a command line option to gsm? Or use an
> X property?
> 
> > 
> > One idea I had was to let the choice of default wm be a
> configure-time
> > option.  Then the package builder could pick the default most
> sensible
> > for the platform.  Does this sound acceptable?
> 
> Not really - there will most likely be _several_ sensible window
> managers
> to choose from. Once you find the set of functional (ie session-aware)
> window managers, the final choice is down to user preference.
> 
> > Tom
> 
> - Dick
> 
> -Harry
> 
> (sorry, couldn't resist)
> Reinier 
>