Re: Re: the solicitation of opinions

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 10:48, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:14:56AM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 10:07, Kevin Smith wrote:
> > > > WindowMaker is a very popular window manager that RedHat has stopped 
> > > > including in their distribution.  That, and to throw mp3 support back
> > > > into xmms ;)  Save us all the trouble...
> > > 
> > > WindowMaker: *nod* It would tickle me pink if someone patched gdm &
> > > switchdesk to support WindowMaker & Afterstep.
> > 
> > Hm - has switchdesk changed much between RHL 7.3 and 8.0+? 'cause the
> > 7.3 switchdesk *does* support Window Maker... (just checked...)
> 
> It does not seem to in RHL 9.

The little gui applet doesn't, but the backend-script parsing is still 
there. Check out /usr/bin/switchdesk-helper.

I think there are already windowmaker RPMs kicking around which integrate 
into switchdesk. I'll see if I can figure out where I saw those....

later,
chris