Hi Rich. If you've got the GNOME control center up and working properly (that's the central control panel for all GNOME stuff), you can set your window manager through that. Basically, go to the panel for window managers and add sawmill (or whatever). You may need to specify the full path to sawmill (probably /usr/local/bin/sawmill). You can "try" that and revert if you don't like it. To get full advantage of sawmill in gnome, make sure you compile sawmill with --enable-capplet. If you use an RPM, I don't know what it will be set to. Your other option (and I'm working off memory for this one, too, so take this with a grain of salt) is to set the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable before calling gnome-session in your .xinitrc. Information on this can be found in gnome FAQs or HOW-TOs, I'm sure...I found it somewhere! Anyhow, I hope this helps. To really get the low-down on these things, read the faqs at gnome.org and any related HOW-TO's, etc.. The sawmill faw answers a lot of your questions, too. You can find all sorts of useful info in these thing :) Good luck! Austin Bingham Laboratory for Intelligent Processes and Systems University of Texas at Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/19/2000 1:20:24 PM, Rich Rudnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >my first post to any linux-related site, so please be kind: > >How do I change the window manager that gnome uses? I've been using >enlightenment 1.5.5, (came with RH6.1), upgraded to 1.6.3, but would >like to check out sawmill. I've gotten the RPMs from sourceforge.net, >but before installing I'd like to understand how to configure X to use >*any* window manager. I've looked at the man pages, FAQ, info, etc., >but unless I'm missing something obvious I cannot figure it out! Would >someone please point me in the right direction? My thanks in advance. > > >_______________________________________________ >gnome-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
