Re: Gnome and Debian

["B . L . Jilek" <bljilek bigfoot com>]

Hi crispin!

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, crispin iinet net au wrote:

> 
> Thats sawmill! A lot of window managers are more than just window managers. wmaker, blackbox, all of these have launching dock bars and wall papers and all that sort of stuff as well as window management functions. sawmill doesn't. It ONLY manages windows. for example. If you get to this screen. Then press ctrl-alt-F3 (or some free terminal). Log in as the same user. run 'export DISPLAY=:0' and then a programme 'abiword' Then go back to the graphic desktop (ctrl-alt-F7 probably. But try others if not). You will see that abiword is launched and being managed by sawmill. Thats all it does.
> 
> If you want the other functionality, you have to use other programmes. gnome provides a wall paper, desktop and dock bar. sawmill provides the window management. So if your .xsession has 'gnome-session' in it, then gnome will launch sawmill as its window manager. Then you get sawmill managing windows and gnome providing the rest.
> 

Maybe you can answer a question for me.  I've just installed Debian
Woody on my laptop.  Still use Potato on my desktops.  And running
Gnome with Sawmill I can't get a right click menu like I'm used to.
The middle click menu comes up fine.  Is this a setting somewhere?
It's irritating the hell out of me.

Would appreciate the help.

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