Re: LinuxWorld irony: The LinuxWorld Website does not work properly on Linux!

From: James Keasley (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 07/17/03 

Date: 17 Jul 2003 07:45:59 GMT

In article, Lenroc wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:10:50 -0700, Lenroc said:
>
>> MetaCity is the window manager in a default installation of RedHat?
>>
>> What version of RedHat do you use?
>
> Oops. It has come to my attention that MetaCity is, in fact, the basis for
> Blue Curve.

It is in fact the default window manager for Gnome, from Gnome 2.0
onwards IIRC, so if it is dues to metacity then it isn't just a
Red Hat thing, as this configuration isn't at all funky or anything. 

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James						jamesk[at]beeb[dot]net
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