changing the gnome window manager
Ben Stringer
ben at burbong.com
Sat Dec 6 03:33:26 UTC 2003
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
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