Public bug reported:
The usual trick of killing the latest default wm, starting sawfish, and
saving the session no longer works.
The /usr/bin/gnome-wm script suggests several ways of changing it, but
none of them seem to actually work. Apparently GNOME now expects
something from the wm that sawfish isn't providing.
.xsession-errors logs a complaint from x-session-manager, "Unable to
find provider 'sawfish' of required component 'windowmanager'".
Similarly if you specify '/usr/bin/sawfish' rather than just 'sawfish'
in gconf-editor.
After the comments at the top of /usr/bin/gnome-wm suggest a couple of
different ways of selecting a wm (i.e., via environment variable or via
gconf key), it then says:
# NOTE: DON'T USE THIS. Please have your window manager install
# a desktop file and change the gconf key
# /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager
Changing that key produces the .xsession-errors message above.
Does sawfish need to provide "a desktop file" to work properly now?
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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can't automatically start sawfish in 8.10 beta
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284392
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