On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:35:53 -0500 (CDT) wrote Dale Huckeby <spock evansville net>: >Since I don't know of a sawfish for dummies list I hope this one isn't too >inappropriate for my questions. I used sawfish before gnome dropped it (when >it was still sawmill, I think) and liked it, but haven't been able to use it >since. I recently decided to make another effort, but so far no joy. I've >been opening a terminal window and issuing the command: >: killall metacity; sleep 2; sawfish & >but it doesn't seem to change anything. If I close that terminal window I >lose my panel as well as the close, maximize and minimize buttons on the >windows of any apps I open. In fact, I lose the ability to do anything at >all and end up having to do a Ctl-Alt-Backspace into a reboot, at which >point I'm right back in metacity. I hope I'm not imposing but i wonder if >anybody can give me some idea as to how to get rid of metacity (tenacity?) >and replace it with sawfish in gnome as my window manager? > >TIA, >Dale Huckeby (frustrated end-user) Hi, If you use gnome >= 2.24 open gconf-editor. Then desktop -> gnome -> session -> required_components and replace metacity with sawfish by windowmanager and restart gnome session. Good luck. -- Regards, Fuchur GPG Fingerprint: CA3B 8204 5B3E 6D48 6D53 C116 E5BC 70D5 B8D7 B2B0
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