Re: Windowmanager in session.wm

[Jan Gentsch <gentsch ifm uni-hamburg de>]

Read my previous post and once more:
It is a bad as anything. A default windowmanager should not be decided
at compile time!
You donīt know which windowmanagers will be available on the system the
packages will eventually be installed on(I am talking about package
making). 
Jan

James Henstridge wrote:
> 
> icewm is the default wm because there needs to be a default for the
> --with-window-manager=wm-name option to configure, and it is as good as
> any.
> 
> If you want a different default in default.session (eg enlightenment), run
> configure as:
>   ./configure --prefix=something --with-window-manager=enlightenment
> 
> James.
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> On 19 Mar 1999, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > >>>>> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:31:50 -0500
> > >>>>> "Bruce Z. Lysik" <eldrik@logrus.com> said:
> >
> >  Bruce> Hi guys. Quick question: Why is the default windowmanager in
> >  Bruce> the session.wm file icewm?
> >
> > Because.
> >
> > Perhaps we should select randomly amongst the known wms? Or always run
> > the wm-properties-capplet on first start, and let the user select
> > randomly?
> >
> >         Robbe
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