Hey, I'm just wondering what's going on with gnome in regards to its own set of hints vs the NetWM standard. I'm not sure if this is the right place for such a message, though the issue does affect us all (except Metacity). I'm hoping someone (Havoc?) knows an answer to this. The Gnome WM hints are documented here http://developer.gnome.org/doc/standards/wm/book1.html gnome-session attempts to run a window manager on startup, and waits for the _WIN_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK hint (I'm assuming) to be set. This means that if one does not write support for these old(?) Gnome hints, the session manager waits and just times out eventually. I searched though gnome code for a few hours today without success to find this check, so I can't say I'm 100% sure I know what's going on with it. Do these Gnome hints provide anything above the NetWM hints? Is there a reason why Gnome2 is still looking for this hint but not the NetWM hint? It is worthwhile to attempt to support these hints still (for Gnome2)? Thanks, Ben -- I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way. http://www.icculus.org/openbox/
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