Re: changing window managers

[Brian Craft <bcboy cisco com>]

I go to Preferences->More Preferences->Sessions, and raise the "Current
Session" tab. openbox isn't there, even though it's running and managing all
the windows. 

Doing a gnome-session-save only writes out the apps that show up in the current
session (magicdev, pam-panel-icon, evolution, etc.).

If I raise the "Starup Programs" tab and add openbox, then I can't log in, as
described below. 

Is there some other session manager config?

b.c.


On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:19:01PM -0700, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> The fact that openbox is unaware of the session manager shouldn't be a
> problem. The manager should still be able to save it and restart it. If
> you are sure you were telling it to save your session, I'd try going
> into the session manager and making sure openbox is set to restart and
> that metacity isn't.
> 
> --Ben
> 
> On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 14:10, Brian Craft wrote:
> > I know this has been covered before, but none of the solutions I've seen
> > actually work.
> > 
> > How do you change the window manager for gnome? I've tried "killall metacity;
> > openbox &", and saving the session. But the session manager is unaware of
> > openbox, so it is never saved. Also the "killall metacity; openbox &" technique
> > suffers from a race condition with the default session config. About half the
> > time the session mananger restarts metacity before openbox. The metacity
> > properties have to be edited first to avoid this.
> > 
> > I also tried waimea, with the same result. Both of these are listed in the
> > gnome docs as compatible wms. 
> > 
> > I also tried adding them to the session start-up apps, but this wedges the
> > login. When it gets to openbox, or waimea, the start-up sequence hangs. In
> > fact, adding just about anything to the start-up sequence makes it hang. It
> > behaves a bit like it's failing to fork the program.
> > 
> > (the system here is a stock RH9 install)
> > 
> > b.c.
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