Selecting a window manager

[Samuel J. Irlapati]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:45 -0500, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:

> 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
> 


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". 
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