Re: gnomewm hints vs netwm hints

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:05:51PM -0600, Ben Jansens wrote:
> 
> I'm just wondering what's going on with gnome in regards to its own set of
> hints vs the NetWM standard.

We've actively dumped most support for the old GNOME hints.
e.g. nautilus will no longer work with them. Metacity has some old
cruft related to them but I've been planning to delete it.
 
> 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.

Definitely should be considered a bug, this is just plain old crack.

Havoc