Re: Changing the window manager

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

Do that again but instead of closing the terminal, logout and choose
"save session".  When you log back Sawfish should be running.

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:26, Pierre Sarrazin wrote:
> Dixit petri.kanerva (2003-11-13 07:52):
> > > Where is the dialog in GNOME 2 that would allow me to change the
> > > window manager from Metacity to Sawfish?  I'm using Ximian GNOME
> > > Desktop 2.0 on RedHat 8.0, and I've just installed Sawfish 2.0 with RPM
> > > packages.  Thanks.
> > 
> > >From terminal write
> > 
> > killall metacity; sawfish &
> > 
> > That should do the trick.
> 
> Thanks.  This does start sawfish, but when I close the terminal (by
> clicking on the 'x' icon), sawfish crashes and there is no window
> manager anymore (I can start metacity again from a new terminal).
> 
> That may be a problem with Sawfish, but I wonder if this very "manual"
> technique has something to do with the crash.
> 
> So must I conclude that there is no dialog in GNOME 2.2 to change the
> WM, like there was in GNOME 1.4?  Is there such a dialog in GNOME 2.4?
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George Farris <george gmsys com>