Selecting a window manager
Paul Michael Reilly
pmr at pajato.com
Wed Dec 1 17:45:43 UTC 2004
Why does Gnome (and Fedora) not have a Window Manager preference
selector? I can kind of understand why Fedora would not distribute some
Window managers that do not comply with the things that a distributor
would like a good citizen window manager to comply with. But surely
there is more than one good choice and hence it would be a good to allow
Users to choose alternatives to Metacity. And to be able to add a
window manager to that chooser. Having to simultaneously kill one WM
while starting up another on the command line seems so twentieth
century. I have a hunch this might be as much a political issue as a
technical issue, but I could be wrong. :-)
FWIW, I've used Metacity now for a month or so, since FC3 came out, and
it is OK but I sorely miss the sawfish Moondome theme (which cannot be
done for Metacity as near as I can tell) and the "resize to max
(vertical or horizontal) and lock" operation. Are there any FC3 users
who are still using sawfish without hassle?
-pmr
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