Re: Correct way to start Gnome?

["Mark R. Bowyer" <Moredhel earthling net>]

>From: James Henstridge <james@daa.com.au>

>You can set a list of non session aware applications to be started by
>gnome-session, and your window manager would be a good thing to put in it.
>This way your WM would get killed when you log out using the panel (note
>that it would not die gracefully -- it would loose its connection to the X
>server and get an IO error.  This may be a problem ... I don't know.  I
>don't know if gnome-session has support for restarting non session aware
>clients though.


Last time I checked, gnome-session tries to start a windowmanager anyway.  It 
defaults to icewm, but that was fixable in a configure option.

I found this out back around 0.99.2, *after* the build, and worked around it by 
building a script called icewm that started enlightenment et al. how I liked it 
- at the time it had no support for multiple screens, so I wrote something to 
count /dev/fb/* (on Solaris/SPARC) and start one for each.  This isn't necessary 
anymore =O)

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