Re: Conflicting backgrounds

[raster redhat com]

On 21 Feb, Matthias Warkus scribbled:
->  Hi.
->  
->  I think the cooperation between Gnome and the window managers
->  (especially Enlightenment) w/r/t backgrounds needs to be improved.
->  
->  When I start Gnome with E, first E draws its background. When
->  background-properties gets invoked, Gnome draws its own background. As
->  soon as I change desktops, the E background gets redrawn. The setting
->  of the "Use background" (sp?) checkbox in the e-conf capplet doesn't
->  seem to change this behaviour in any way.
->  
->  I think there should be a checkbox in the background-properties
->  capplet to say "Let the WM draw the background". If Gnome absolutely
->  wants to do its own ones, it should be possible to effectively stop
->  the WM from redrawing the background.

not possible - you need the WM to co-operate - you cannot "forbid" it.
any wm can do this - see same problem if you use xv, or any other thing
to change the bg (xmountains, xearth etc.)

->  Is such a thing feasible? Has it perhaps already been done and on my
->  box it's just a mean bug?
->  
->  mawa

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