On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 03:07:43PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > Hi all > > So, a number of people have complained that GNOME has started up using > twm or whatever. I think that if the WINDOW_MANAGER environment > variable isn't set, we shouldn't just blindly fall back to > x-window-manager. After all, most of those managers aren't NETWM > compliant, and I don't know anyone who seriously wants to use twm with > GNOME. So I suggest we look at x-window-manager, and if it's metacity > or sawfish, we accept that. If not, we look for metacity or sawfish, > and take one of them if present. If neither are present, then we just > use whatever is in x-window-manager.
Well, if the gnome packages would not reset x-window-manager or something such, then it would already be a big enhancement in this respect. Friendly, Sven Luther
