changing the gnome window manager
James Drabb
JDrabb at tampabay.rr.com
Sat Dec 6 03:16:30 UTC 2003
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 21:53, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hey people,
>
> So, I'm not a big fan of Metacity. It's not customizable.
>
> So, firing up gconf-editor, I hacked the registry at
>
> desktop -> gnome -> applications -> window_manager.
>
> I tried changing both current and default to /usr/bin/sawfish (after
> installing sawfish of course). Neither has had any effect, they're just
> ignored.
> Little help?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
gnome-session will remember your window manager.
Open up a terminal window and type this command:
kill all metacity; sleep 3; /usr/bin/sawfish &
Jim Drabb
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