Re: Cant set windowmaker as default manager

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley att net>]

Leland Elie wrote:

> I didn't mean it like that, but of all the responses he got, no one even
> bothered to ask which control-center version he had, and if you scroll
> back through the archieve you will see that there is a mention of 1.0.6
> having problems remembering the WM selection.  Now if he don't have
> 1.0.6, then by all means try different methods to solve the problem, i
> was just trying to be practical about the whole thing.

Too bad there's no good way to search this list.  It's hard to keep up with all the
e-mails due to the relatively high traffic on this list, and a search capability might
increase our ability to be "on the ball".  I don't consider browsing the archives a
good way to search (even though I've tried that).

Dan

>
>
> Leland Elie
>
> chris@crius.tamu.edu wrote:
> >
> > 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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