Gnome window manager configurability

[Rahul Sundaram]

Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> wrote:
>>  I don't think it's exposed in the UI anywhere, but if you open up
>>  gconf-editor and navigate to /apps/metacity/general then click on
>>  action_right_click_titlebar and change the word there from "menu" to
>>  "lower", then it will lower on right click.  I don't think there's a
>>  corresponding way to affect raise.
> 
> Thanks for the reply (and Ignacio, as well).  raise/lower would be
> ideal, but lower is at least halfway there!  I prefer tons of ways to
> configure things (yes, so what if I want to make it work like ctwm!)
> and is why I've been wary of gnome, but it is pretty nice.
> 
> By the way, is it possible to use something other than metacity for
> the window manager?  Might something else be more to my tastes?  Or
> are gnome and metacity too intertwined?

Metacity can be replaced by several other window managers including even 
Kwin as long they support EWMH defined at 
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html. Openbox 
for example works well.

Rahul