Selecting a window manager
Tom Coburn
tcoburn at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 02:56:31 UTC 2004
at a terminal, type
switchdesk xfce
to change to xfce
or switchdesk gnome
to switch back to gnome
or rm -r -f kde to remove that annoying KDE from your computer
forever. LOLOL...
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 21:52:20 -0500, Paul Michael Reilly <pmr at pajato.com> wrote:
> David L Norris wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:45 -0500, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> >
> >>Why does Gnome (and Fedora) not have a Window Manager preference
> >>selector?
> >
> >
> > Metacity is the official GNOME window manager and thus it is the window
> > manager being used by GNOME. I don't think the reasoning need be more
> > complex than that. If you do want/need to switch WMs then the odds are
> > good you will do it exactly once and thus don't need some utility
> > cluttering the menus for all eternity.
>
> Appreciate your feedback. Actually, I precisely want the ability to
> select a WM, try it out for size for a short while (many minutes) to see
> if I want to use it for even longer or if it is clear that this one just
> doesn't work for me. I'm curious to see how fvwm works these days. It
> was OK years ago. I've never tried Maker but surely would if it were a
> click or two away. And I would probably switch back and forth between
> sawfish and metacity depending on my mood. I could be unique but I'd
> hazard a guess that there are more than a few Users who have this itch
> but none of us yet have reached the threshold to actually make it
> happen. I'll keep my fingers crossed that someone beats me to it.
> So much software to write yet so little time ... :-)
>
> >>Having to simultaneously kill one WM while starting up another on the
> >>command line seems so twentieth century.
> >
> >
> > Why would you have to do that? You would gnome-session-properties to
> > control what's running in your session. (Applications -> Preferences ->
> > More -> Sessions) Highlight metacity, select remove, select apply
> > (metacity is then permanently killed for you), run your preferred window
> > manager from a run dialog or whatever, set it to "restart" if it doesn't
> > automatically, and then save the session. If the WM doesn't support
> > session management you'll have to add it to the Startup Programs list
> > with a low priority number.
>
> This is an OK alternative but still a clunky way to tell Gnome I'd
> prefer to use sawfish rather than metacity for a while. Thanks for
> pointing it out however.
>
> -pmr
>
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