| Jeff Abrahamson on 2 Nov 2006 00:33:29 -0000 |
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On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 12:23:46AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > The alternatives system is just a symlink farm, and it looks like > you've got it configured correctly (use readlink -e > /usr/bin/x-window-manager to make sure). > > For the alternatives to work, something has to try to exec a program > named x-window-manager. I am not sure anything actually ever calls > x-window-manager, though, so that may be where this plan is falling > apart. Are you running gnome-session? If so, there really is no > choice at all but to (kill $(pidof $current_wm) && exec $new_wm). Sawfish somehow magically relaunches itself, even when it is parented to init. The Gnome folks have done more than one thing like Windows. ;-) Thanks (and to Walt): .xinitrc was, indeed, specifying gnome-session, which is very insistent about launching a window manager that it likes. Supposedly other wm's can coexist with gnome, but it's not obvious. Also non-obvious is what gnome does for me, so it's maybe a wash. > I could grumble about gnome's decision to use gconf and the > similarity to windows registry, but I'll stop there. You had to know it was coming, though, when they decided that .net and C# would look good with linux-y lipstick. ;-) -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://jeff.purple.com/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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