Re: Cant set windowmaker as default manager

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley worldnet att net>]

chris@crius.tamu.edu wrote:

> You might want to try setting:
> export WINDOW_MANAGER=wmaker
> in your .bash_profile or the like for another shell.
> This might help.

This works fine on my system, but it still leaves unanswered the question why
Gnome doesn't remember your WM choice between sessions?  I had a heck of a
time getting Gnome to understand that I wanted WindowMaker, not
Enlightenment.  Forcing it with the above command worked, but not without
it.  But in general I've found that it's a Bad Thing to try to change WMs in
gnomecc.  I tried that with wmG, and it hosed one of my accounts--wmG would
always start without titlebars, and I'm not sure if I ever cleaned it up
(once it started nicely, but not since then).  Of course that could be a wmG
problem.  Who knows--I have something that works, and I have too many other
things to trouble-shoot right now.

Dan

> Someone gave me these sites that might help further integrate window maker
> with gnome:
> http://www.clanger9.demon.co.uk/computer/gnome/windowmaker.html
>
> http://doors.cybertrails.com/gnomemaker/snap/index.html
>
> chris
>
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Matthew Bettencourt wrote:
>
> > I am using gnome with windowmaker window as my default manager.  It
> > seems that I am having a problem making my settings to use windowmaker
> > stick for more than one session.  I start gnome with gnome-session and
> > it starts enlightenment.  I go to the control center and set the window
> > manager to windowmaker and hit o.k., then I am using wm.  I logout and
> > log back in and I am back in enlightenment.  I go to control center and
> > it says tha t I am in wm.  I have to switch to enlightenment and then
> > back and I am set until I log out??  Has anyone else seen this??
> > Thanks
> > Matt
> >
> > P.S>, Here are my system specs.  I am using RH6.0 with the following
> > rpms
> > {tweety.tlsavi 176} rpm -qa | grep gnome
> > gnome-games-devel-1.0.2-11
> > gnome-pim-devel-1.0.9-1
> > gnome-media-1.0.9.1-2
> > gnome-linuxconf-0.22-1
> > switchdesk-gnome-1.7.0-1
> > xmms-gnome-0.9.1-19990831cvs1
> > gnome-objc-1.0.2-5
> > gnome-core-devel-1.0.9-4
> > gnome-audio-extra-1.0.0-7
> > gnome-core-1.0.9-4
> > gnome-libs-1.0.15-3
> > gnome-objc-devel-1.0.2-5
> > gnome-utils-1.0.12-1
> > gnome-pim-1.0.9-1
> > gnome-users-guide-1.0.5-4rh
> > gnome-games-1.0.2-11
> > gnome-audio-1.0.0-7
> > gnome-libs-devel-1.0.15-3
> > {tweety.tlsavi 178} rpm -qa | grep Win
> > WindowMaker-0.60.0-4mdk
> > {tweety.tlsavi 179} rpm -qa | grep Xfree
> > {tweety.tlsavi 180} rpm -qa | grep XFree
> > XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3.3.5-0.6.0
> > XFree86-doc-3.3.5-0.6.0
> > XFree86-3DLabs-3.3.5-0.6.0
> > XFree86-xfs-3.3.5-0.6.0
> > XFree86-libs-3.3.5-0.6.0
> > XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3.3.5-0.6.0
> > XFree86-3.3.5-0.6.0
> > XFree86-devel-3.3.5-0.6.0
> >
> >
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