Gnome window manager configurability

Reid Rivenburgh reidr at pobox.com
Tue Apr 8 19:34:58 UTC 2008


Hi.  I've been using F9 beta (and updates) on a new system for a few
weeks now.  Before this, I'd been a KDE user for several years; I
liked the customizability and look of it.  I was a little put off by
the state of KDE 4, though, so I thought I'd take another look at
gnome.  I got it to the point where it actually looks quite a bit like
my KDE 3 setup, so I'm pretty happy.  (Though having a vertical panel
on the right with what I think is a window list (taskbar) applet in it
isn't working properly; the window list constantly bounces around
between 1 and 2 columns and is pretty flaky.)

My question is whether I can change things like the actions that are
performed when you mouse-click on window titles and frames.  In KDE, I
set it up so that a right-click on either would perform a raise/lower
on the window.  (That goes back to my setups in fvwm, mwm, ctwm, etc.,
so it's ingrained.)  In gnome, that just brings up a menu.  Is it
possible to change such things?  I'm really quite a gnome novice and
don't even know what window manager it uses, but I'm using the
defaults (though I rearranged panels, of course, and added various
applets).

Thanks,
Reid




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