Re: The windowmanager startup issue

[Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe orcus priv at>]

Hi,

>>>>> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:11:51 +0100
>>>>> Jan Gentsch <gentsch@ifm.uni-hamburg.de> said:

 Jan> For the SuSE rpms we have been using a setup, which if you start
 Jan> up gnome for the first time, scans the available windowmanagers
 Jan> and prompts the user to choose one. I would suggest to integrate
 Jan> something of that kind formerly into gnome, using a small gnome
 Jan> programm (right now we are using tcl).

I think the wm-properties-capplet interface would suffice for that. We 
just need to modify the call to wm-p-c in the default.session, and
perhaps wm-p-c itself a bit, so that it starts in "No WM running"
state, and you can choose your favourite from a list of detected ones.

        Robbe

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