changing the gnome window manager

[John Florian]

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 01:01, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 06/12/03 Ben Stringer did say:
> 
> > > gnome-session will remember your window manager.
> > > 
> > > Open up a terminal window and type this command:
> > > 
> > > kill all metacity; sleep 3; /usr/bin/sawfish &
> > 
> > killall metacity; sleep 3; /usr/bin/sawfish &
> > 
> > and first, you must change the session style for metacity to normal (not
> > restart), via "Perferences -> More Preferences -> Sessions", or metacity
> > will keep restarting before sawfish can.
> 
>     Ok, this worked. Thanks. 
> 
>     Two questions...
> 
> 1. What the heck is the registry key for then if it's ignored?
> 2. Has anyone had problems with the workspace switcher applet once
> running sawfish? I've tried it, and it moves all my windows around when
> I change workspaces.
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Mike

Regarding Q#2, check out:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109624

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John Florian <bhbmvpzm at doubledog.org>