On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:47:01 -0400 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I sed dselect to install Metacity. I already had Gnome-sawfish > installed. However, I still can't figure out how to tell Gnome to use > this window manager. > > What am I missing?
Nothing obvious, so don't feel bad - the GNOME folks pretty much buried window manager switching for the sake of usability and simplicity. Things can get a little tricky because Sawfish and Metacity interact with the session manager in different ways. This is one of those things that will eventually be easier, but is still in a transition phase at the moment. But going from Sawfish --> Metacity should be easy though. First try... metacity --replace ...in a terminal. I think that should work. If not, try... killall sawfish; metacity ...on a single terminal line. Going the other direction (Metacity --> Sawfish) is a pain, however - I don't remember exactly how I did it. I think you want to remove Metacity using Preferences-->Advanced-->Session, and then run... sawfish ...in a terminal. It can get a little weird though, because you'll be running without any window manager at all after removing Metacity but before running Sawfish. -- Todd Pytel ---------------------------------------- Signature attached PGP Key ID 77B1C00C
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