Bug 182698
| Summary: | gnome-wm documentation does not correspond to reality | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Michal Jaegermann <michal> |
| Component: | gnome-session | Assignee: | Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-24 05:41:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Filed upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332410 The recommended way to switch to a different window manager is to run other-window-manager --replace gnome-session-save provided the other-window-manager supports session management and has a --replace argument to replace the running window manager. > The recommended way to switch ...
The question was about a non-hacky and documented way to do the job. I know
also other ways. For example, by replacing gnome-wm by other script with the
same name but earlier in $PATH.
With the current state of things suggested commands require an open terminal
window (or at least a "mini-command" applet) and gnome-session-save will
make that terminal in a session client - which may be not desired.
As a matter of fact if processing shell startup files does work like it should (see bug 177258 and the current discussion there) then setting WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable acts as advertised. |
Description of problem: 'man gnome-wm' claims: The user can overwrite the selection of a window manager by setting the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable and later PERSISTENT SETTINGS The program stores the current selection of a window manager in the gconf key /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default It is far from clear where WINDOW_MANAGER is supposed to be set as gnome-session seems to totally ignore user shell startup files. Changing value of /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default also does not have any effect. So what is a non-hacky way of substuting another window manager and where it is documented? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-session-2.13.91-1 How reproducible: always