Gnome window manager configurability

[Rahul Sundaram]

Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>  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.
> 
> Sawfish sounds pretty interesting, but I'm surprised to find that it's
> not in the fedora or livna repositories, considering others like
> fluxbox are.  Am I just missing it?  Was there a huge falling out?  I
> started to do the old manual "build from source" bit like in the old
> days, but I started running into build issues with its
> dependencies....  Yum has made me fat and lazy!

Well sawfish was dead for a very long time and has recently shown some 
signs of life again. I spend time building the packages for a couple of 
days and one of my colleagues submitted it for review and hasn't had 
time to follow it up.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431249

Rahul