Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

From: Todd Pytel (tppytel_at_sophrosune.org)
Date: 10/15/03

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    On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:47:01 -0400
    stan <stanb@panix.com> wrote:

    > OK, I sed dselect to install Metacity. I already had Gnome-sawfish
    > installed. However, I still can't figure out how to tell Gnome to use
    > this window manager.
    >
    > What am I missing?

    Nothing obvious, so don't feel bad - the GNOME folks pretty much buried
    window manager switching for the sake of usability and simplicity.
    Things can get a little tricky because Sawfish and Metacity interact
    with the session manager in different ways. This is one of those things
    that will eventually be easier, but is still in a transition phase at
    the moment.

    But going from Sawfish --> Metacity should be easy though. First
    try...

    metacity --replace

    ...in a terminal. I think that should work. If not, try...

    killall sawfish; metacity

    ...on a single terminal line. Going the other direction (Metacity -->
    Sawfish) is a pain, however - I don't remember exactly how I did it. I
    think you want to remove Metacity using
    Preferences-->Advanced-->Session, and then run...

    sawfish

    ...in a terminal. It can get a little weird though, because you'll be
    running without any window manager at all after removing Metacity but
    before running Sawfish. 

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