Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

From: stan (stanb_at_panix.com)
Date: 10/15/03

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    Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:09:53 -0400
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    On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:17:22PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote:
    > 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.
    >
    Yes, that's teh problem. When I log into a Gnome session, I have no window
    manager running. I can then get a terminal, and run sawfish, ormetacity.
    The metacity --replace, did not got it intalled permanently.

    Under Preferences -> Advanced O see a list of programs that are running. 

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