On 8/19/12, Teika Kazura <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:44:08 +0200, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: >> Recent linux distros typically come with gnome 3 (unfortunately). >> If I'd like to have sawfish how would I go about it? > > On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:40:13 -0700, greg heil wrote: >> Is there a readable FAQ somewhere that covers this? > > I wonder if someone could recap and post it somewhere (plain text will > be highly appreciated), in order not to repeat this subject (and > variants?) over and over. Currently newcomers are quite likely to give > up Sawfish after a try. I myself can't, sorry, since I never use DEs > nor session managers. > > Forunately Sawfish users are very kind and always many people answer > to this question. > > Of course, new answers can refresh and improve the knowledge, and it's > great. > > Teika (Teika kazura)
Thanks for all the replies. I realize that I didn't make my question clear enough: on Fedora 12 (that comes with gnome 2) I run sawfish on its own, gnome is not running and neither does any other desktop environment not even a graphical login screen (text login is fine with me I can type startx afterwards). But I use a couple of gnome 2 applications like network manager, gnome-power-manager, gnome-settings-daemon because these are useful on a laptop because I can use the brightness buttons, volume buttons, etc. I'd like to have the same thing with Fedora 17, run sawfish on its own but with a few of these gnome applications. What made me a bit worried is that in order to compile sawfish I need librep and rep-gtk. But this is gtk2 I guess. And since gnome 3 uses (I guess) gtk3 I was worried whether I can install gtk2 alongside gtk3. Or this is no problem? Only gnome 3 alongside gnome 2 is problematic? Or should I just install sawfish from the fedora 17 repo which will automatically pull gtk2? And will MATE have these applications like gnome-power-manager, gnome-settings-daemon, etc? That would be the best I guess. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- Sawfish ML
