A global window manager environment variable

[Patryk Zawadzki]

On 4/24/07, nyu 2 <nyutwo at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that it would be useful to have a globally-available preferred
> window manager variable for people that don't like the default window
> manager that their desktop environment provides.  Something like a NETWM
> variable that, when set, specifies an alternate window manager to load,
> perhaps.
>
> It should be a trivial change in most DEs' startup scripts.  Does anyone
> else think that this may be a good idea?

How will this help people who already replaced their WMs?

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Patryk Zawadzki
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