A global window manager environment variable

[Patryk Zawadzki]

On 4/24/07, nyu 2 <nyutwo at gmail.com> wrote:
> They give one simple, easy, and consistant way to do it, regardless of your
> desktop environment.  If you prefer a desktop environment that doesn't use
> sessions, then this may be the only way aside from scripting to make it
> happen.

My point is, I can hardly imagine someone who would prefer exactly the
same WM regardless of the desktop in use, regardless of whether it's a
local or remote session.

Other than that how do you plan to tell an average user Jane to switch
her GNOME WM from say IceWM back to Metacity if an admin decides to
set a global ENV variable thus overriding all users' desktop defaults?
Would you tell her to launch vim and try to edit all of her dot-rc
files?

WM is a per-session preference and it belongs there. If I had both
GNOME and KDE installed I can hardly imagine wanting Metacity under
KDE or KWM (or whatever is the name, excuse my ignorance here) under
GNOME.

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Patryk Zawadzki
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