Re: GNOME and WindowMaker

[Adam Moyes <adam macfar demon co uk>]

Neb Bosworth wrote:
> 
> Has anyone sucessfully set up GNOME to work with WindowMaker??  I have
> GNOME 1.0.1 and WindowMaker 0.51.2 and when I configured WM, i did a
> "./configure --enable-gnome --enable-sound --enable-lite".  I then built WM
> and did a wmaker.inst and put the following lines in .Xclients:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> panel &
> /usr/local/bin/wmaker
> 
> Here is the thing, X starts up fine and WM starts up fine and the panel is
> there but the screensaver, backgrounds and some other functions in gnome
> don't affect the Window Manager. I mean that if I set up a background in
> gnome control-center, it sets the background in WM but if I quit X and come
> back in, there is no background even though control-center is still set up
> with the background I chose in the previous section. Also, Screensavers
> don't work at all. AND, AND, when I use panel's logout, it just quits
> panel, not the window manager. Basic ickiness..... nothing that really
> hurts but kind of a pain in the ass.
> 
You should be exec'ing gnome-session. When it fist starts up there will be
no window manager, run the gnome configuration utility, go to the Window
Manager section and set it to WindowMaker. It should start atomagicaly.

Next time you start, WindowMaker will start up properly.

Make sure when you want to log out, you do it through the panel.

Madman.

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