On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 05:23, Keith Christian wrote: > The Sawfish window manager does not seem to be in the list of packages > shipping with the 9.1 download edition. > > 1. I see that Metacity is now the default WM for Gnome, is there any specific > technical reason why Sawfish was displaced in favor of Metacity? >
Because Sawfish is more than just a wm and the Gnome team wanted a "dumb" wm instead - although you can force Sawfish into being the wm and get back some of that great functionality - but overall, the Gnome project is getting a bit more scattered right now just in trying to play "catch up" and kiss RedHat butt at the same time... > 2. Should I want to install Sawfish as the default WM is there a good > procedure written up somewhere on how to do it? Or is it as simple as using > RPM to remove Metacity and installing Sawfish from the RPM's instead? > Not really - it's a "kludge" or a "cf" to get Sawfish running - but what you CAN do is to run gconf-editor and find where it has the wm in the "Windows-like registry" - then run the Session Manager, and find Metashitty in the list of startup programs - replace that with Sawfish (of course, AFTER downloading and installing Sawfish) with the same running defaults, then open a terminal and do: killall -KILL metacity ; wait 10 & sawfish ...and if that chokes and pukes, just restart Gnome2 and you should have Sawfish as the wm - the first few boots of Gnome2 will be flaky, but after that it should stabilise a bit... -- Tue Apr 1 05:35:01 EST 2003 05:35:01 up 10 days, 17:22, 3 users, load average: 0.23, 0.42, 0.41 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Make headway at work. Continue to let things deteriorate at home.
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