Re: Window Manager Behaviour (Gnome)

[Rob Kirkbride <rob kirkbride thales-is com>]

John Haxby wrote on 01/12/2004 16:49:

> Don Buchholz wrote:
>
> > Rob Kirkbride wrote:
> >
> > > 1) If you have focus following mouse you need to click on the title 
> > > bar to bring it the front rather than allowing a click anywhere in 
> > > the window.
> > > 2) When you click the title bar to do this it doesn't start thinking 
> > > you want to move the window.
> >
> > I think it's a window manager resource called "autoraise".  Try
> > 'xrdb -q | grep -i raise' and see if it is shown.  Look for an entry
> > in files which match the .[xX]* pattern.  Try doing a recursive grep
> > on config files/dirs -- "grep -ir raise $HOME/.??*".
>
> It's not, that's something else.   However, I did notice a couple of 
> likely looking settings when I was browsing through the possibilities 
> for metacity in gconf-editor.   At least one of these is 
> "rhel3-workarounds"!   I didn't know about gconf-editor; I'm always 
> pleased when I find something new about Linux/Unix.
(Top posting fixed)

Thanks for you help. However I've taken Johns original advice and gone 
with using KDE. Gnome 2.8 (in FC3) seems to be the first time I've 
really got on with Gnome - before that I've always found myself going 
back to KDE. As you say KDE works fine and there's loads of options to 
change if required (though the default behaviour is not far off anyway)

Rob