RE: gnome compliant window managers

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

the wm caplet already has detection code in it... It looks in its desktop
files and then checks to see if the files that are pointed in the desktop
exist. It would be a simple matter to recode it to check wether a wm is
loaded and if not prompt :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sri Ramkrishna [SMTP:sri@aracnet.com]
> Sent:	Monday, March 22, 1999 9:18 AM
> To:	Fox, Kevin M
> Cc:	'Michael Fulbright'; Maciej Stachowiak; 'gnome-list@gnome.org'
> Subject:	RE: gnome compliant window managers 
> 
> > Well, the wm selector capplet most of the way written...
> > when someone first sets up gnome he/she will be prompted for what window
> > manager he/she wants to use.
> > 
> > Then gnome is not tied to any window manager :)
> 
> How do you propose to detect each windowmanager?  I'm assuming that you
> are going to give a detected list of windowmanagers instead of making the
> user type it in.  Of course there should be an option to put a path in as
> well.
> 
> I'm not very familiar with the other distributions, but do all of them put
> their window managers in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin?  
> 
> In my opinion, there should be a configuration program that will ask a
> couple of simple options and create the environment from that.  Something
> to think about.
> 
> 
> 	sri
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