A global window manager environment variable

[Havoc Pennington]

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