Re: I'm missing somthing

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Ben Michie wrote:

> I'm running suse 6.2 and wanted to know a couple of things. 1) i've
> read stuff that's lead me to beleive that i don't have to be running
> another windowmanager with gnome, is this true?

You have to be running a window manager, but you should not run the window
manager yourself. gnome-session takes care of starting it (this is to
allow you to choose your wm from the control center).

> 2) Does any1 know how i would go about doing it in suse. I tried using
> the export WINDOWMANAGER=gnome-session and the regular
> WINDOWMANAGER=gnome-session. Any1 have some tips? Many thanks,

Eek, gnome-session is what starts the window manager, not _is_ the window
manager.:)

So in your ~/.Xclients:

#!/bin/sh
export WINDOWMANAGER=yourfavorite wm
exec gnome-session

Hope this helps,
-- Elliot
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.