Changing window manager: from metacity to windowmaker
steve
steve at lonetwin.net
Mon Nov 24 20:47:23 UTC 2008
Hello Paul,
Thanks for your suggestions. My reply is inline below ...
>
> There are many ways to do this in Fedora 8, maybe you can tell me if
> they still work on F10.
>
> The easiest route might be to fix your session.
>
> In Gnome->Preferences->Personal->Sessions, you can take these steps.
> 1. stop metacity. change its status from restart to normal, then
> remove it from the session. (if you don't change its status, it just
> restarts).
:-) That's actually the first thing I went looking for, because, I had used that
when I did the same thing on F8. Unfortunately tho, it seem like they have
removed the window manager option from the Sessions configuration dialog
...also, the restart/normal ..etc options are no longer available. Now, there is
just a ^user-friendly^ "Startup Programs" list.
>
> 2. insert wmaker as a program in the startup list and then save the
> settings. People have claimed that if you have wmaker running and you
> just hit the "save session" thing, then it will make it right. I've
> not experienced that myself.
I tried this. Or rather added wmaker to the startup programs list i mentioned
above (after changed the gconf key
/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager ) and it does the right
thing.
So, thanks for that suggestion ! It works (kinda ...there are a few ugly
side-effects that i am trying to figure out now ...for example, how do I get rid
of the panel[1] and what is the proper way to logout[2])/
> As an alternative, you can go "old school." Look in your HOME
> directory for a file .Xclients. I think it should be there, it will
> have only something like gnome-session. Before that gnome line, you
> cna insert this
>
> export WINDOW_MANAGER=wmaker
Haven't tried this out yet. Will do it soon. Will report back if after I do.
> Several years ago, I wrote a script to do the changeover for users. It
> replaces the function of wmaker.inst. It is called gnome.wmaker.inst
> and it uses gconftool to make the session changes for you.
Thanks for the script ! I'm still reading through it ...it seems to be doing a
lot of things, so I'll probably end up stripping bit of it.
Anyways, thanks for your help.
regards
- steve
[1] Like I mentioned in my original post, I am using docker for my applets
(nm-applet, gonme-power-manager ...etc). However, since wmaker now starts as an
application after the session has loaded, the applets first get created on the
panel and then 'jump' to the docker application. I need to figure out how to
avoid this and eventually remove the panel.
[2] exit WindowMaker and logout are 2 different things. If I need to preserve my
wmaker session and logout cleanly, I need to exit wmaker and then logout from gnome.
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