Advanced configuring of metacity [no more sawfish in FC3] or other WMs

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 02.10 05:18, Neil Bird wrote:
> 
>   So I finally took the plunge last W/E and upgraded FC2 to FC3, and  
> sawfish has finally been removed.
> 
>   I've never really found metacity does what I need, but now I'm used  
> to GUI config. for straightforward options (e.g,. key/mouse bindings/ 
> themes) I'm loathe to drop to another (more configurable) WM that / 
> forces/ me to fiddle with config. files (did I really just say that?)  
> like I used to a few years back in FVWM2.
> 
> 
>   I know of devilspie for metacity which will give me matched window  
> config., but is there any way of properly customising key/mouse  
> bindings with metacity (even via an external app. like devilspie)?

I share your love of Sawfish, but I've managed to locate most of what I  
needed in the way of congiguration under Preferences in the Gnome  
menus.  I can't speak for mouse button-6, but Keyboard Shortcuts have  
their own popup there.