[670] in athena10
Re: set skip_foo; window managers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Smith)
Tue Dec 2 18:16:56 2008
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:15:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Quentin Smith <quentin@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> I would recommend installing all of the window manager packages we can
>> identify, but not making any effort to support them beyond that.
>
> Well, the problem is that someone who is using a window manager in
> combination with skip_nautilus and skip_panel is going to be very sad the
> first time they log in to an Athena 10 machine, and vtwm.gamma presents them
> with a giant "Desktop" window which covers everything. skip_nautilus made
> pre-GNOME window managers a bit more friendly. If we're going to punt
> skip_nautilus and skip_pannel, I think we should also stop honoring
> WINDOW_MANAGER, and people should be forced to take explicit action to
> re-customize their Athena 10 session.
I believe Ubuntu/Debian installs their own xsession scripts for other
window managers; if you select a different window manager from the login
window, it won't launch that window manager inside a gnome-session, and
you won't get Nautilus (good) or XSS (probably bad).
--Quentin
