Bug#526544: gnome-session: Should use gnome-wm by default rather than metacity

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 01:42:23PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:

> Currently, gnome-session launches the window manager specified by
> /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager, which defaults
> to metacity.

> gnome-session ships a script, gnome-wm, specifically designed to
> find and exec an appropriate window manager, defaulting to metacity.

1) I never manually changed it and it is "gnome-wm". But indeed "unset
   key" sets it to metacity.

2) It does not seem to make a smidgen of difference. /usr/bin/gnome-wm
   was not being run and I was getting metacity.

Switching window manager seems to be done like this:

killall metacity
sawfish&
disown
Menu System / Preferences / Startup Applications / Options / Remember
Currently-Running Application

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Lionel