Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Could someone pleas explain the relationship between Gnome and SB> windo managers?
They're orthogonal. You can run any window manager you want with GNOME and it'll work just fine[1]. SB> Is there a "Gnome Prefered" window manager? No. SB> How do I set up to sue it if there is? Change it under Settings, Desktop, Window Manager off the GNOME menu. You'd probably also need to install it using the normal Debian scheme (use dselect or some such, or 'apt-get install foo' for whatever value of foo). SB> If not couldsomeone give me a recomenadtion as to which one to use SB> with Gnome? Well, I like Sawfish; it seems to be reasonably featureful and configurable, and not too bloated. If I wasn't running Sawfish, I'd be running FVWM2. It wouldn't hurt to play with different window managers to find one you liked, or maybe to look at http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ for a listing. [1] There is such a thing as a GNOME-compliant window manager. This potentially allows GNOME applications to do things (like adjust the stacking order) that they couldn't normally do under X, and it's necessary if you want to use the GNOME pager or task list applets. But besides that, having GNOME compliance doesn't really matter. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
