Desktop command configuration

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On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 08:52, nick kuzmik wrote:
> If you are suggesting that I simply select KDE as I
> log in, I've already tried that with no success. To
> the best of my understanding, this is not a GNOME/KDE
> issue.  The issue here is the window manager that is
> packaged with Fedora. 

It is a KDE/GNOME issue. KDE uses a window manager called Kwin, and
GNOME uses a window manager called metacity. metacity is a very
simplistic window manager without a lot of bells & whistles. I don't use
KDE so I'm unfamiliar with kwin. If you want more functionality out of
your window manager, look at a program called devil's pie
(http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie?flav=xhtml). It adds a
bit more options to metacity.

Or you could install sawfish, and use that as your GNOME window manager.
Or openbox, that's another nice GTK+ 2.x window manager that integrates
with GNOME.

> --- Simon Perreault <nomis80 at nomis80.org> wrote:
> > I don't know about GNOME, so my comments are about
> > KDE.
> > 
> > nick kuzmik wrote:
> > > 1. I liked being able to mouse from one workspace
> > to
> > > the next without touching the keyboard or clicking
> > in
> > > the Workspace Switcher.
> > 
> > Still available in KDE.
> > 
> > > 2. I had the Windows System key configured to
> > > automatically activate a terminal from anywhere.
> > 
> > Still available in KDE.
> > 
> > > 3. And now with FC1, there is the issue of  mouse
> > > focus as outlined in 
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115072.
> > 
> > KDE in Fedora does not have this bug.
> > 
> > > I don't want to cause trouble but can some one
> > tell me
> > > why it seems like each new version of Redhat takes
> > > away my ability to tune the desktop so I am as
> > > productive as possible? 
> > 
> > I'm sure this is not the intent of Red Hat.
> > 
> > Also, do not confuse Fedora with GNOME. All the
> > issues you have are with 
> > GNOME, and maybe you'd be happier with KDE.
> > 
> > 
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