This question would be much better suited for debian-user, but hey, I'll answer anyways:
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:03, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > Anything in debian-testing for PowerPC that: > > 1. has virtual desktops or workspaces that cooperate with GNOME > 2. can drag from one desktop/workspace to another via the pager > 3. can do focus-follows-mouse (or lazy) w/o autoraise > 4. in click-to-focus mode, pasting into a window sets focus > 5. if it provides minimize buttons, they work with GNOME > 6. provides a menu button for less-used window operations > 7. can set basic options via GUI or _simple_ config file > 8. business-like: fast, easy-to-read fonts, reliable, etc. > 9. puts an entry for itself in the GNOME control center > a. doesn't place windows on top of the GNOME task bar > b. lets me move a window partly off the left side of the screen GNOME 2 + metacity should do all of that, but it will only be available for sid for at least several weeks. When you do install it, I highly recommend metacity-setup and metacity-themes too. Of course, you could upgrade to sid now; it's not too unstable on powerpc at least. Alsoyou could even help test out my GNOME 1 -> GNOME 2 transition scripts :) > I'd been running metacity with a moderate amount of hatred, > but that just got uninstalled due to some gconf conflict in > debian-testing. Metacity had a nice tempting minimize button > that would hide a window... but not create a taskbar button > to restore it! Metacity plays much nicer with GNOME 2 (I assume you're using 1.4). Metacity only groks the new standard NETWM hints, but 1.4 has proprietary hinting.
