Re: Cant set windowmaker as default manager

["Matt Greenfield" <matthewg clear net nz>]

No, I think in a way he has a valid point.  There are people out there using
these packages in situations where they need to work.  If a bug is found and
fixed that is affecting a lot of people, then there needs to be a new
release.  When the end user has to start using CVS versions in order to have
a stable working system, that to me says something isn't right.  I'm not
intending to start a flame war here, just trying to point out that there is
great potential to lose end user users due to buggy releases.  Still, the
whole 1.0.50 effort seems to be heading in the direction of solving this, so
I suppose there's not too much to worry about.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: <chris@crius.tamu.edu>
To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: Cant set windowmaker as default manager


> Maybe Leland Elie should answer all questions on this list, since no one
> else is "on the ball".
>
> chris
>
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Leland Elie wrote:
>
> > It seems no one here is on the ball anymore, the problem you are having
> > may lie with the control-center package.  there is a bug in
> > control-center-1.0.6, if you want it to work again, just switch back to
> > 1.0.5   I am real surprised that an update to it wasn't announced as
> > yet. i know there was someone who supposedly patched it in CVS, but i
> > guess no one bothered to update to 1.0.7 so that things will work again.
> > oh well, you get what you pay for.
> >
> > Leland Elie
> >
> >
> > Dan Hensley wrote:
> > >
> > > 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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