A global window manager environment variable

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:50:49 +0200 "Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys at pld-linux.org>
babbled:

> 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.

i would have to agree - you have a chace to select your login session in most
modern display managers (gdm, kdm, entrance etc.) and those sessions then
define what wm, session manager (if any), and other goop starts up. if its
gnome or kde they may offer options of what wm to execute. other sessions
installed by wm's may not (eg enlightenment installs a session .desktop and
well.. all it does is execute enlightenment). if you choose the same session
for every login - then you get the same wm, remote or local or whatever. i
believe all the mechanism people need is there already, in a user-friendly
manner.

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