IN my opinion, it is not worth it to fight the desktop. My usual method is:
* find out which window manager they use, then rename it, and create a symlink from the original name to sawfish or * run sawfish --replacel every time I reboot (which is once in a bluemoon). I find that this option is less expensive over time than trying to configure _again_ sawfish which whichever environment ubuntu comes out next. by the way, I am running now xfce4. I got tired of gnome. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:05 PM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert > > Good it is going in xfce4 for you. i unfortunately have had no luck in > Xubuntu 1204... What did you put in your xinitrc file? > > greg > ~krsnadas.org > > -- > > from: Robert 'Bobby' Zenz [email protected] > to: [email protected] > date: 17 August 2012 13:23 > subject: Re: [Sawfish] preferred way to install on "recent" linux > distro > > Hello. > > I'm not sure if Sawfish will work Gnome3, Gnome3 is not exactly that > classic-WM-friendly type of environment. Though, you could try. > > For Sawfish I'd either suggest a "pure" Sawfish session, Xfce or Mate. > Sawfish works very good with Xfce and Mate, I had the former running > for some time and the later now as my main environment. Getting it to > run with Xfce is a little bit tricky, as you need to write a custom > .xinitrc to launch Xfce with Sawfish. With Mate it's easier, as you > just need to replace a value in the Mate-Conf > (/desktop/mate/session/required-components I think). > > Sawfish ML > > -- > > from: fuchur [email protected] > to: [email protected] > date: 17 August 2012 12:59 > subject: Re: [Sawfish] preferred way to install on "recent" linux > distro > > Install gnome 2 alongside with gnome 3 not work. On fedora i use xfce4 > with sawfish. But now also mate is in the repos for 16 17 and also in > 18. > > Regards, > Fuchur > > GPG Fingerprint: CA3B 8204 5B3E 6D48 6D53 C116 E5BC 70D5 B8D7 B2B0 > > -- > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:44:08PM +0200, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > Hi folks, > > Recent linux distros typically come with gnome 3 (unfortunately). If > I'd like to have sawfish how would I go about it? Install gnome 2 > alongside with gnome 3? Will that work? > > Or should I install MATE which is a gnome 2 fork? > > If anyone managed to get sawfish on fedora 16 or fedora 17 I'd be > happy to hear your story! > > Cheers, > Daniel > > Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown > > -- > Sawfish ML > -- --dmg --- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org -- Sawfish ML
