On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:50, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:50:39PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > I found a variation of this on a list I follow (I forget which) when I > > had the twm problem. There's a lot of heat but no fire on fixing this > > permanently, as far as I've seen. Some of the core gnome programmers > > aren't interested in making in easy to switch window managers, so this > > is it. ;) > > > > Well, that's not exactly true. We aren't interested in having the term > "window manager" in the GUI (other than in a "power tweak" control > panel that someone might write), but there is a plan for how it should > be easy that should work with fvwm2 right now for example: > > $ fvwm2 -replace & > $ gnome-session-save > > That's it. The problem is just that Sawfish doesn't have the -replace > feature. -replace uses a standard mechanism defined in the ICCCM > (WM_Sn selection). >
Actually I do understand your reasoning: "Let's make a linux desktop that simply works" and for what it's worth, support it. People who hang out on lists like this (the 1% you've mentioned in other contexts) will adapt, write, or find the workaround. ;) -- First Impressions are Bunk.
