[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#462914: fixed in fluxbox 1.0.0+deb1-6

[Julien Cristau]

reopen 462914
clone 462914 -1
reassign -1 xfce4-session
retitle -1 should use the x-window-manager alternative instead of running xfwm
severity -1 wishlist
retitle 462914 fluxbox is not a session manager, it shouldn't pretend otherwise
kthxbye

On Wed, Mar  5, 2008 at 11:33:37 +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:

> Unfortunately there is no other variant. When removing the link on
> session manager in fluxbox, then it is impossible to choose it as a
> default window manager if there's at least one session manager
> installed. 
> 
> Then there appears a paradoxical situation: less functional systems like
> KDE/xfce will prevent from using the most comfortable window manager -
> fluxbox. ;)
> 
No, that won't prevent you from doing that.  Any session manager should
allow you to choose which window manager you're running.  If it doesn't
then that's a bug in the session manager imo (and in any case, it's just
a matter of replacing the default window manager with fluxbox in your
session and saving it).  Or if you don't want to use any session
manager, then you're welcome to use ~/.xsession.  And in any case
working around that in fluxbox by pretending to be a session manager is
actively harmful.

Cheers,
Julien
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