Re: ARRGH! Metacity is killing me.

[Ben Steeves <bcs metacon ca>]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 06:42, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 12:11:43AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > The question is: how can I change the window manager Gnome uses to something
> > a little more _flexible?
> 
> I found no way to integrate Enlightenment as nice as in RH 6.2 and
> 7.x anymore. Metacity sucks hard, agreed. I know the blues. Voiced it
> here before IIRC. :-)
> 
> Especially that you can't just drag windows to adjacent workspaces.

You can... in the pager, if you really want to drag, or with the window
menu ("Move to Workspace Right/Left or Move to Workspace X").

> Or switch workplaces just be hitting the screen edge with the mouse.

True.

> Or force window stacking ("always on top") for certain windows.

Yes, you can.  I'm running metacity-2.8.0-1 and there's an "On Top"
option in the window menu.

> *sigh*

Metacity might not be everything to everyone, but it's lightweight, has
a lot of reasonable features, and is easy to use.  But Linux *is* all
about choice... of applications.  Not necessarily cramming every choice
into every application.  Use a different WM.

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