Re: Cant set windowmaker as default manager

[Matthew Bettencourt <matt ssc usm edu>]

My Config file is identical
{tweety.tlsavi 32} cat ~/.gnome/wm-properties/Config 
[Config]
Current=Window Maker
but I will try moving .gnome and starting over to see if that helps.
Matt

Kent Carpenter wrote:
> 
> Matthew Bettencourt wrote:
> >
> > I have tried this with no luck.  It still starts enlightenment and the
> > control center still says I am running windowmaker.  Ugh, I don't like
> > e., any other ideas.
> > Thanks
> > Matt
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> >
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> 
> I had a similar problem after upping.  In my case it wouldn't seem to
> write the ~/.gnome/wm-properties/Config file (I had experienced a crash
> and ended up removing .gnome from my user directory to try and get a
> clean start).
> 
> So I took my Config file from the old pre-crash .gnome backup and it
> starts WindowMaker with no problems now.
> 
> ----------~/.gnome/wm-properties/Config--------
> 
> [Config]
> Current=Window Maker
> 
> ------------EOF--------------------------------
> 
> HTH