/usr/bin/gnome-wm is in gnome-session-flashback 1:3.8.0-1ubuntu11.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o755.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 | #!/bin/sh
# The user can specify his prefered WM by setting the WINDOW_MANAGER
# environment variable.
#
# If this is not set, we search a list of known windowmanagers and use
# the first one that is found in the users's PATH
# Avoid looping if the session configuration tells us to use gnome-wm or if
# the user forces gnome-wm via WINDOW_MANAGER
if [ "x$WINDOW_MANAGER" = "xgnome-wm" ]; then
WINDOW_MANAGER=""
fi
if [ -z "$WINDOW_MANAGER" ] ; then
# Create a list of window manager we can handle, trying to only use the
# compositing ones when it makes sense
KNOWN_WM="metacity mutter sawfish"
for wm in $KNOWN_WM; do
if [ -x /usr/bin/"$wm" ]; then
WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/"$wm"
break
fi
done
fi
# Look for the default window manager on the system
if [ -z "$WINDOW_MANAGER" ] ; then
WINDOW_MANAGER=$(readlink /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager 2>/dev/null)
fi
exec "$WINDOW_MANAGER" "$@"
echo "ERROR: No window manager could run!"
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