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

[Mark Hoecker]

> 
> 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.

I decided to stay with sawfish.  By just loading the
FC2 RPMs for sawfish, rep-gtk and librep, I'm able to
use sawfish in FC3.  Although Metacity continues to
expand its mapping functionality, it just doesn't
match the flexibility of sawfish's window resizing
options yet.



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Mark Hoecker


		
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