<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.3.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:45 -0500, Paul Michael Reilly wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> 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 </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Here is what i do to change WM. At the command line, type "killall metacity && xfwm4". You may have to do this a few times to get xfwm4 to come up. I used xfwm4 as an example, so you can try other window managers. The XFCE window manager, xfwm4, is what i use by default now. After you selected your window manager, you can type "gnome-session-save". </BODY> </HTML>