Re: adventures with window managers

From: Adam Hardy (adam.ant_at_cyberspaceroad.com)
Date: 09/13/05

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    Kai Grossjohann on 12/09/05 11:58, wrote:
    > Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> writes:
    >
    >
    >>I didn't realise Gnome was a window manager. Yet it runs with sawfish.
    >>Makes me think I should be able to choose Gnome and Enlightenment, but how?
    >
    >
    > Gnome is not a window manager. Gnome contains many programs, one of
    > which is a window manager.
    >
    > There should be a Gnome setting for changing the window manager. So
    > you could try that. Alas, as I don't use Gnome myself, I don't know
    > where to find that setting.

    interestingly I just found a config file:

    ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/%gconf.xml

    containing the command for the window manager in gnome. I wonder what
    happens if I change that command to selectwm??? 

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