Re: Window properties - roles?

On 12/1/06, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The way to set up a window manager in gnome is exactly the way proposed
by that openbox page: get the window manager you want working (how to do
that surely depends on the window manager...) and then save the session.


Maybe it's just me, but that seems like a really bad idea for the
official way to change your wm. If you need to change it because
you're hoping to recover from some misbehavior that's serious enough
to prevent you from logging in, you're out of luck. If your session
environment is already screwed up somehow, it's just going to get
saved right along with replacing the wm.

Probably not issues that are encountered very often, it just seems
like there's a lot of room for error.

--
Andy Harrison
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