Re: Adding GNOME to Solaris7

[D-Man <dman d137-l025 rh rit edu>]

As a SE major I am curious as to how Gnome gives hints to the window
manager?

What does a window manager have to do to receive the hints?

-D


"Mark R. Bowyer" wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I've been off sick for a couple of days =OZ
> 
> You can use whichever WM takes your fancy - though the Gnome Panel on the
> same acreen as the CDE one looks odd ;O)
> 
> Plus dtwm (the CDE window manager) doesn't pay attention to Gnome hints, so
> it doesn't work very well with it, though it does work.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> >From: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu>
> >To: "'Mark R. Bowyer'" <Moredhel@earthling.net>, gnome-list@gnome.org
> >Subject: RE: Adding GNOME to Solaris7
> >Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:40:43 -0800
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mark R. Bowyer [mailto:Moredhel@earthling.net]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 8:45 AM
> >> To: gnome-list@gnome.org; GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu
> >> Subject: Re: Adding GNOME to Solaris7
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> >From: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu>
> >>
> >> See the files attached.  They add:
> >
> >I'll browse through these as soon as I get a chance.  Thanks to all for
> >responding.
> >
> >> I can point you to Solaris Packages of KDE and Gnome, but so
> >> far nothing for
> >> Enlightenment.  I may end up doing that muself, if one of the
> >> big sites
> >> doesn't do it soon =OZ
> >
> >Do I have to install another WM, or can I use whatever Solaris ships with?
> >If I can't, I'll try to muddle through the compile (YAY! sunfreeware.com is
> >back up!)
> >       Thanks,
> >               Greg
> 
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