Fedora <-> kde

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Daniel Roesen wrote:
> Especially as it gets worse and worse in GNOME... I want my
> integrated(!) Enlightenment back... *grin* Really, metacity is a
> major annoyance at best. Never experienced sawfish (only recently
> upgraded my desktop machine from RH 6.2 to RH 9 and shortly after
> to FC1). You can't even set windows to "always on top", switch
> desktops by hitting the screen border with the mouse pointer,
> or ALT-Tab cycle windows without metacity drawing windows from other
> desktops into your current one. *SIGH* And still, it's slower than
> E on RH 6.2.

I'll agree in general that metacity lacks some of my old favored 
features (I used to use fvwm). Desktop switching based on hitting the 
screen edge took a while to get used to, but reducing mouse usage is 
generally a good thing. I don't usually have much use for setting a 
window to 'always-on-top', but I can imagine it might be useful in 
certain cases (and I can't figure out how to make metacity do it).

IIRC, metacity stripped out a lot of that functionality to make it 
"simpler, friendlier, and smaller". YMMV if it's actually there.

But anyway, getting to my point:

I don't have your problem with using alt-tab or alt-esc. Both cleanly 
cycle through just the windows from the current desktop. Could it be 
that you have some older GNOME/metacity settings that weren't cleanly 
replaced? I've done a few user-upgrades now, and old GNOME settings have 
commonly proven to be a source of trouble.