changing the gnome window manager

[Ben Stringer]

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 14:16, James Drabb wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 21:53, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> >     Hey people,
> > 
> >     So, I'm not a big fan of Metacity. It's not customizable.
> > 
> >     So, firing up gconf-editor, I hacked the registry at
> > 
> > desktop -> gnome -> applications -> window_manager.
> >     
> >     I tried changing both current and default to /usr/bin/sawfish (after
> > installing sawfish of course). Neither has had any effect, they're just
> > ignored. 
> >     Little help?
> > 
> >     Thanks,
> >     Mike
> 
> gnome-session will remember your window manager.
> 
> Open up a terminal window and type this command:
> 
> kill all metacity; sleep 3; /usr/bin/sawfish &

killall metacity; sleep 3; /usr/bin/sawfish &

and first, you must change the session style for metacity to normal (not
restart), via "Perferences -> More Preferences -> Sessions", or metacity
will keep restarting before sawfish can.

Cheers, Ben