Bug 129453 - missing windowmanager with minimal graphical install
Summary: missing windowmanager with minimal graphical install
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Minor
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Assignee: Marcus Schaefer
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-10-19 17:46 UTC by a b
Modified: 2005-10-25 10:28 UTC (History)
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Description a b 2005-10-19 17:46:42 UTC 
When minimal graphical install is done TWM is the default windowmanager even
when others are selected/available.
This is a big problem for new users since they have no ieda how to chnage the WM.
A configuration point 'choose WM' would help a lot.
Comment 2 Marcus Schaefer 2005-10-20 10:56:47 UTC 
Hmm, this behavior is intentional because in a minimal graphical 
installation neither KDE nor Gnome is installed. yast will choose a
default in that case and this default is XDM and TWM. We have currently
two choices:

1) fvwm2 is installed because this one is used for the installation
   process as well

2) windowmaker is installed but very bad internationalized

The question is what do we prefere ? Is a novice user able to use fvwm2 ?
I will change the default if we agree to one default.

Thanks
Comment 3 a b 2005-10-20 12:18:26 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Hmm, this behavior is intentional because in a minimal graphical 


> 
> The question is what do we prefere ? Is a novice user able to use fvwm2 ?
> I will change the default if we agree to one default.
> 
The problem is that TWM leaves the novice user without a clue what to do. i had 2 people with these problem.
I would suggest adding a selector for default_wm if xdm is selected.
Neither WM nor FVWM2 is a back choise in the sense that its clearly a wm started
and ppl will be aware there is a logical way to continue.

(As long time user i would prefer fvwm2 in place of WM.)
Comment 4 Marcus Schaefer 2005-10-25 10:28:45 UTC 
I changed the default from twm to fvwm2