Re: window manager hell



Startup gnome, start sawfish (or metacity or ...), logout but make sure
you're current session is saved. I experienced the window manager is
treated as just another app: it's started automaticly only if it was
saved as part of your session.

Selecting wheter gnome shows an option to save the session can be
selected in gconf-editor /apps/gnome-session/options.

IMHO this is a bug. The window manager is not a regular app, it's part
of GNOME itself. So the session manager should ignore the current window
manager process when trying to save a session and start the manager
selected in gconf:/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager

Currently i think the session-wise selected WM is started before the
gconf-wise selected WM. When the gconf-WM starts, it immediately exists,
because a WM is already running. Just a hunch..

Maybe anybody with more knowledge of gnome-internals could give some
info??

J.

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 04:16, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> 
> Hi,   Help.
> 
> I cant get a window manager to start when I log in to gnome 2.
> 
> I used to have sawfish runnig.  tried metacity , decided to go back to
> sawfish but it wont start by default.
> 
> I have tried runnig it, logging out and selecting save session, but it
> does not restart.
> 
> Looking in the gconf configeditor app I see sawfish is set as my window
> manager, yet nothing happens....
> 
> currently I am logging in, selecting a new terminal from a pannel icon
> and starting sawfish fromthere
> 
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> 
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> *  Rob Brown-Bayliss
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