Kai Grossjohann on wrote...
| Johan Vromans wrote:
| > When I substitute ctwm for gnome-wm, ctwm is started first, then the
| > startup pauses for a full 3 minutes, and then the rest of the tasks
| > are started. Apparently, the session manager is waiting for something
| > that gnome-wm does and that ctwm does not.
| >
|
| I read the metacity source code, and it seems that metacity registers
| itself with the session manager on startup.
|
| gnome-wm passes an argument to metacity for this.
|
| I don't know whether this will solve the problem, or whether there is
| something else or something additional that causes this delay, but
| perhaps you'd like to find out?
|
| Kai
|
Prehaps we can replace the call to gnome-wm with a script which will
just register a fake WM, so that it will continue on and be happy?
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <A.Thyssen@griffith.edu.au>
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