Re: Problem with session management, doubling processes

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Wilbert Berendsen <wbsoft@xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> Yes, i am using the latest stable source. I think the problem was that
> Window Maker and Gnome as well saved session, that's why all programs got
> launched twice on login (also two xconsoles!)
>

Indeed, you can only have one session manager and WindowMaker wants to
be a session manager too. So WindowMaker and GNOME are somewhat
incompatible.
 
> Yet i don't understand why gnome-session launches the windowmanager with
> command line arguments -clientId default2, and how i can influence that,
> because wmaker doesn't understand that arguments, however i compiled
> gnome support in.
> 

This is a bug, you may want to file it on bugs.gnome.org

Havoc