Re: Gnome 2 - general questions

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 21:07, Marc Williams wrote:
> I successfully installed Gnome 2 today on my RH 7.3 machine using the
> Ximian snapshots.  All seems to have gone well but I have a few nits to
> resolve.  If this isn't the appropriate place to ask, please advise.
> 
> 1) How do I make my application window positions and size stick?  Using
> the Sawfish Window Placement tool, my only options seem to be
> "randomly", "interactively", "centered", "none", "top left", and
> "first-fit".  I don't like any of those.  I want it to remember its last
> position and size.
> 
> 2) How do I get rid of Nautilus and/or keep it from starting?

To stop nautilus from starting, open nautilus go to edit,preferences and
disable "use nautilus to draw the desktop"

> 3) I don't seem to have a Control Center.  Is this normal?

Yes - there is a control-center ui accessed by gnome-control-center, but
it is more easily accesed via nautilus, go,start-here
> 
> 4) The Help says that the screen saver is supposed to be a capplet
> choice but it's not.  I have to run xscreensaver-demo in order to start
> it up.  Is this normal?
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> 
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