RE: Correct way to start Gnome?

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Would it be better to create a wm-config capplet or something
have the wm-config be called up by gnome-session in place of the wm

wm-config would look in ~/.wm for what wm to run.
if there is no file or nothing in it, it would prompt you for your default
wm.
that way when someone is setting up there computer for the first time, they
get a choice of wm's and they can change it in the future through the gnome
control center.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Allan Third [SMTP:allan@grelb.src.gla.ac.uk]
> Sent:	Thursday, February 18, 1999 2:23 AM
> To:	eldrik@logrus.com
> Subject:	Re: Correct way to start Gnome?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > >>> "AM" == Adam Moyes <adam@macfar.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > 
> > AM> I hope this point hasn't already been made, but I saw something
> > AM> earlier that indicated that all you had to do was exec
> > AM> gnome-session and once that is running, execute your window
> > AM> manager etc. and shutdown gnome. The next time you run up your
> > AM> session, gnome-session will start it for you.
> > 
> > This is the method I currently use, and it's working good.  I had some 
> > problems a couple weeks ago, with an earlier version of Enlightenment, 
> > but things seem up to form now.
> 
> The thing is, that only really works for Enlightenment, as far as I can
> tell, and I don't really want to use that. Would it be possible to specify
> a
> window manager in some config file for gnome-session, so that
> gnome-session
> starts (and hence also closes) the window manager with the logout button?
> Similarly, it could detect when the window manager process dies (e.g. due
> to
> user picking an "Exit" menu option) and (at least optionally) close itself
> when that happens. As far as I can see (although I'm not a programmer)
> that
> shouldn't be TOO hard to do.
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Allan
> 
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