On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:41:00PM +0000, john smith wrote:
> hi,
>
> before I used gnome I was using icewm and in the system menu I could
> choose whatever window-manager I like from fvwm,icewm,sawmill, etc now when
> I installed gnome, I had to edit my Xsession file to include one window
> manager or else there would be none. I was wondering if I could somehow get
> the window-manager choices again thru gnome.
While this doesn't seem to be well documented, in /etc/gnome there are
two files default.session and default.wm.
My default.wm had
[Default]
WM=gnome-wm
gnome-wm doesn't have a man page, but here it was launching
enlightenment. And 'gnome-wm --help' gives this:
enlightenment options:
-theme /path/to/theme
-econfdir /path/to/.enlightenment/conf/dir
[-smid | -clientId | --sm-client-id] id
-smfile file
-ext_init_win window_id
-no_overwrite
[-v | -version | --version]
-display display_name
(so I guess it's an enlightenment thingy)
Changing "WM=gnome-wm" to "WM=icewm-gnome" had no effect. However, going
into /etc/gnome/default.session and changing a similar line there:
2,RestartCommand=gnome-wm -clientId default2
to
2,RestartCommand=icewm-gnome -clientId default2
did make icewm-gnome the default window-manager for a new user with
"exec gnome-session" as the only line in ~/.xsession.
As for the choice of window managers, there's a directory
/usr/share/gnome/wm-properties that contains some defaults for various
window managers. However, I have several listed there that no longer
exist on my system. So, I'm not sure if the gnome-control-center checks
this directory and then removes entries from it's list that it can't
find. Somehow, I think that's not the case, but there's a listing
somewhere else. When I recently installed enlightment, again, it
automatically showed up in the control-panel -- so it's gotta be
somewhere!
Hope this wasn't too long-winded :)
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