Re: How do I switch to Sawfish??

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 15:23, Gaute Lindkvist wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > There is no easy/gui way atm unfortunatly. There are some beginings in
> > CVS for a capplet made by Seth, but currently I don't even know if it is
> > planned to go in anymore. Current solution is doing 'killall
> > metacity;sawfish &' in your terminal.
> >
> 
> I sure hope it ISN'T going to be part of GNOME desktop. Having a
> simple and easily reachable GUI-way
> of changing Window Manager is just plain wrong.
> 
> The Window Manager in a desktop environment should be prechosen and just
> work. And if you really need a different Window Manager then you are
> advanced enough to search for it in gconf-editor, do a killall ...., or
> just ask someone how to do it.

This I agree with.  Another solution maybe to have this placed in a
special area in the control-center.  "Advanced" may not be the place,
since too many users think they are advanced.  ~,^  Perhaps the tool
could just be placed in the System menu?

> 
> Gaute
> 
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