Re: Window properties - roles?

[Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>]

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 13:49 -0500, Andy Harrison wrote:
> On 12/1/06, Mariano Su�z-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar> wrote:
> > When everything else fails, it is time to read the docs:
> > <http://icculus.org/openbox/docs.php?page=build.html#install-gnome>
> 
> Great for openbox, which I quickly decided against.  Unfortunately the
> gnome documentation doesn't appear to have any information on how to
> do this properly.  

The way to set up a window manager in gnome is exactly the way proposed
by that openbox page: get the window manager you want working (how to do
that surely depends on the window manager...) and then save the session.

> I figured it out from some old mailing list
> messages indicating that the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable was
> read by gnome-wm.  I stuck that in my ~/.xprofile and it worked.

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