Am Die, 2002-10-29 um 21.07 schrieb Colin Walters: > 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.
As a non-developer I _strongly_ support your proposal for a change, preferably by introducing an new alternative. The current setup is a real showstopper for Gnome 2. _Every_ new user with limited experience stumbles over this issue and many don't know, how to solve it. I just did several days of email support to someone who was unable to find a solution. Finally he ended up by manually adding sawfish to the list of (non session management aware) startup programs. If Gnome 2 is really targeted at the inexperienced user, such things _must not_ happen! Thanks, Johannes
