2008/12/19 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 08:23 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 02:19 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote: >> > >> > In short, the new gnome session configuration dialog is alot simpler >> > and alot less confusing, but it gives us no simple way to give >> > metacity the boot on a per session basis. How do i go about doing >> > this via an RPM? >> >> The required components should just be a fallback in case the session >> didn't contain a window manager, file manager, etc. At least that is my >> understanding of how they're supposed to be used. So, you should just >> install an autostart file for xmonad that marks it as a window manager >> via >> >> X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=WindowManager >> X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager >> >> then your users should be able to switch their sessions to xmonad by >> turning it on in the session capplet. > > Just tried this with openbox, and it works fine. At this point, i don't care about openbox. Openbox complies with certain standards that the xmonad devs decided are a waste of lines of code. All i'm looking to do is convince gnome that it doesn't need a window manager at all. In the older versions of gnome, metacity showed up as just yet another app in the sessions-capplet. Not anymore. -Yaakov -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
