[eclipse-devel] Gnome not found during configuration

[Christian Hofer]

hatchond at labri.fr wrote:

>As you noticed since gnome-2.0 things work differently on that side.
>The wm-properties, AFAIK, does not exist or is not used anymore. In that case
>you should do ./configure --without-gnome-entry-dir. After everything has been
>compiled and installed, start your X gnome-session from the console. Before
>starting your X session do an "export WINDOW_MANAGER=/path/to/eclipse", then
>the window manager that will be started should be eclipse. Now exit and save
>your session, and the next time you start it, eclipse should be your window
>manager. It might be a delay during the first start because the gnome session
>may not understand Eclipse as it should. The symptoms are the gnome splash
>screen that stay for a long time on the window manager starting phase. But it
>should start anyway.
>  
>
Merci beaucoup!

At first I felt a bit helpless, because I do not start the X session by 
hand, but use kdm and could not figure out, how to set the environment 
variable so that it takes effect. But now I knew for which keywords to 
search Google, and decided to use the brutal way:

killall -9 metacity; sleep 5; exec eclipse &

then logoff, saving the session. Maybe this is not the supposed way, but 
it worked (although it showed an error that there is no .eclipse-file).

What is really cool, is the possibility to maximize the windows 
horizontally and vertically separately. The impossibiltiy to do this was 
one of the big annoyances so far for me (but maybe I just didn't know it 
existed in other window managers)!

What I find strange, is that on the Gnome panel at the bottom of the 
screen, I cannot get a window to front by just clicking on the button, 
although I can minimize and get back windows by this method. Maybe this 
is a bug? (But I have little Gnome experience.)

I will have to try it with KDE as well.

Thanks again,
Chris