Re: gnome compliant window managers?

[Mat Withers <mat withers 4thwave co uk>]

Paul G Cooper wrote:
> 
> I've been trying to find out / userstand what gnome compliant window
> manager means. I've read the FAQ but that doesn't help. I mean it doesn't
> explain in practice what it means - like;
> 
> How do I get a WM to recognize the panel and stop placing dialog boxes
> underneath it - this is a pet peave of mine: surely the best place for the
> shutdown or logout yes / no box is the middle of the screen?
> 

Best luck I've had is hacking icewm so that its task bar appears just
above 
gnome panel. When you maximize windows or when icewm places new windows,
it
doesn't do so over It's task bar - and thus not over panel.

I've got a screenshot of my desktop at http://mat.will.killall.com/

			Mat

>
> Is there an automated way to make the WM menu match my gnome menu?
> 
> There's probably other questions that i can't think of right now.
> 
> If people want to throw stuff at me (if there is any) I'd be happy to
> paste together a webpage. It'd be more from the user 'getting WM X to work
> with Gnome' point of view but I'd be happy to include technical stuf as
> well. (I'll even write something in Lyx-sgml to go into the FAQ ;-) If
> somebody is already doing this I'd be happy to help out.
> 
> Oh, before I forget, I use (in no particular order) e, icewm, fvwm2gnome -
> tell me if others work better with gnome
> 
> Paul
> 
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