FC5: first impressions

[Ron Yorston]

Gianluca Sforna wrote:
>On 3/24/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> > 1. Metacity's new window in the background
>> >    I can not stress how big of a problem this is for me.
>> >    I have used it since it was introduced, in the hope that
>> >    I'll get used to it. I didn't. Not only it does the wrong
>> >    thing for me in 90% of the cases, it also forces me to
>> >    use the mouse a lot more, which is painful for me.
>> >    A few google searches and browsing through GConf did not
>> >    reveal a way of disabling it.
>>
>> We have a bug report open it. Upstream has tentatively agreed to make it
>> a option disabled by default
>
>Glad to know that :)
>
>That is seriously impacting my work speed (which is already not so high..)

If anyone needs a pre-release version of metacity with configurable new
window focus I have it here:

   http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/metacity/fc5.html

Ron