ARRGH! Metacity is killing me.

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:45:57 -0400, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:52:09AM -0300, Ben Steeves wrote:
> > a lot of reasonable features, and is easy to use.  But Linux *is* all
> > about choice... of applications.  Not necessarily cramming every choice
> > into every application.  Use a different WM.
> 
> Okay, fine. But is killing the current one and running a new one _really_
> the solution? It's very counter-intuitive that a temporary change like
> running a program will *stick*. *Where* is it definined? (And what happens
> if you do something like that by accident -- where do you repair it?)

i would imagine gnome 2.6 still has some sort of sessions preference like
gnome 2.4 had...though i havent gone looking for it yet. 
If the gnome 2.4 experience is still relevant 
gnome-session-properties   is the command you probably want to learn
more about to control "stickiness" of running processes.

And if you want to continue to discuss design goals of metacity
and gnome's interaction with window managers in general, perhaps this
isn't the best forum for that. Your concerns seem to clearly fall
outside of "bugs" and more like "wtf are the gnome developers
thinking." And if thats the case, you need to move your complaints
upstream to the gnome specific lists. But to honest, i think the
momentum in the devlopment space about how tightly metacity is
integrated into gnome is far past the point where your concern is
going to prompt any action.

-jef"pining for the good old days when being fluent in fvwm config
file syntax made you a super star computer whiz"spaleta