ARRGH! Metacity is killing me.

[Chris Kloiber]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 13:42, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 12:27:12PM +0800, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > 
> > Well. I *like* metacity, but I thought I'd try to change it to sawfish
> > just to see if it still works. Sawfish is already installed as part of
> > an "@ Everything" install of FC2-test3, so I thought I would try this
> > one liner:
> > 
> > $ killall -v metacity && sawfish
> > 
> > What do you know, it worked.
> 
> Indeed, but a version supplied does not really work with a pango
> font selection.  It is true that this is the last "official release"
> but this was fixed quite a while ago in cvs and that code is no
> worse in stability that release.  See
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120570
> 
> for details and an "updating patch".
> 
> Sawfish, and quite possibly other window managers as well, is
> also adversly affected by a bug in libwnck.  Check
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120652
> 
> for that.  That one "closed, fixed upstream" but fixes did not
> percolate to FC2 level so far AFAICS.
> 
>    Michal

I only tried sawfish because I knew it was already installed, not
because I prefer it. I was explaining one way to change the default
window manager. I had not intended to start a best window manager
flame-fest. Sorry!

-- 
Chris Kloiber