metacity question

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 17:11, Alan Cox wrote:
> > that Metacity has nearly _ZERO_ configuration options. i mean jeebuz,
> > you can't even make a window always be on top. am i using ms windows,
> > because i always thought *NIX stuff was supposed to be _more_
> > configurable.
> 
> It is, you replace metacity with a more featureful  window manager. Metacity
> has a lot of problems right now - windows sticking to the mouse, small screen
> handling flaws and buggy resizing but given its goals I don't see why you
> are moaning about the configuration stuff.
> 
> Metacity is a simple window manager for basic stuff anyone can in theory 
> use. Its like complaining gedit isnt fully emacs equivalent, you don't
> 'fix gedit' you use emacs. 

Out of curiosity - what other gnome-compliant window managers 1. exist
and 2. are being maintained.
Also how do you go about changing window managers in gnome?
there used to be a way to do it in the control panel, but that's not
there anymore.

-sv