Re: why?? window managers

[Allan Third <9607436t udcf gla ac uk>]

Hi,

> Tri wrote: 
> > 
> > Gnome is not listing any windowmanagers in it's window manager tab
> >in the 
> > control-panel. Why? 
> > I have enlightenment 15.5 installed. 
>
> I got the same problem, i'm using gnomelibs 1.0.8, gnome-core 1.0.5 
> and control-center-1.0.1, and even i dont have anything shown up 
> when using control-center-1.0.4. 
>
> did I miss anything? 
>
> any clues would be greatly appreciated :) 

You haven't missed anything out. I assume you both installed from RPM,
as I don't think the problem arises with tarballs, although I'm open to
correction on that one. There's a bug in the control-center SPEC file -
the line which should tell rpm to install the .desktop files for the
Window Manager control-center capplet is missing. It has been reported,
with a fix, but I assume our developers have been too busy on other
things, and it hasn't been done yet. 

Anyway, here's how to fix it:
Create a directory <gnomeprefix>/share/gnome/wm-properties
(where <gnomeprefix> is the directory under which GNOME is installed)

Get a copy of the source tarball, and untar/unzip it. Then
cp control-center-1.0.5/capplets/wm-properties/wm-desktops/* \
	<gnomeprefix>/share/gnome/wm-properties

Your problem should be solved!

TTFN

Allan

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