Config options like PAGER, or EDITOR? This is meant to be something like those variables.  Set the WM you want once, and then if you use KDE, or Gnome, or XFCE, or $NIFTY_NEW_DE, they all work with it. Also, it reduces the number of things that someone needs to remember if they do happen to want to run a non-default WM. If this had already existed, then Beryl wouldn't have had to be set up to do odd things to start up the first time.  -Nyu2 <div> On 4/24/07, Havoc Pennington <<a href="mailto:hp@redhat.com">hp@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> nyu 2 wrote: > It should be a trivial change in most DEs' startup scripts.  Does anyone > else think that this may be a good idea? > Config options don't belong in environment variables. The way this at least used to work in gnome is that if you want another WM, run it with --replace or -replace, then save session. e.g. say you are running something else and you want to switch to metacity,   $ metacity --replace   $ gnome-session-save If it wasn't done via the session, it would be done with e.g. a gconf key. There is also just a control panel "Desktop Effects" that toggles metacity/compiz Havoc </blockquote></div>