Re: Broken WM change

2009/3/18 Abrolag <abrolag <at> users.sourceforge.net>:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:31:17 +0000
> Abrolag <abrolag <at> users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:38:55 +0000
>> Abrolag <abrolag <at> users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>
>> > I've been using OpenBox for a long time now, but just recently
>> > thought I'd have a look again at other WMs but everything seems
>> > horribly unstable.
>> >
>> > I can reasonably reliable switch between OpenBox and Kwin, but
>> > OroboROX, Sawfish, xfwm4 all crash. In doing so they disable WM
>> > selection and the only way I can recover control is by loging out and
>> > back in again.

How do they disable switching? Is the process still running (so
ROX-Session doesn't prompt for a new one) or does the prompt get
burried under other windows, etc? Putting some print statements in
might help track it down.

>> > The command I'm using (in a script) is:
>> >
>> > dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call --dest=net.sf.rox.Session \
>> >   /Settings net.sf.rox.Session.Settings.SetString
>> > string:ROX/WindowManager string:xfwm4
>> >
>> > OroboROX of course has its own incomprehensible startup script!
>> >
>> > I had been running ROX Session 0.30, but upgrading to 0.40 made no
>> > difference.
>>
>> I am very disappointed that nobody has commented on this. Mostly I want
>> to carry on using OpenBox, but would still like to be able to switch to
>> the others from time to time.
>
> Hmmm. Did the last one to leave switch out the lights?

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