Re: Gnome 2 - general questions

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:07:01PM -0500, 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.

No idea.

> 2) How do I get rid of Nautilus and/or keep it from starting?

Go to the Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Sessions (under
"Applications" from the menubar or under the foot menu from a standard
panel), then select Nautilus from the "Current Session" tab. Change
its type to "normal" (it is currently "respawn"), then click the
"Remove" button. This will stop Nautilus and prevent it from restarting.


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

It's part of Nautilus by default. If you don't want to use Nautilus
(which is pretty common), just create a launcher on one of your panels
that will run the "control center" application. That will start up the
control center in its own shell.

> 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?

I don't understand what you are saying here. (Also, ince you didn't
know where the control center was, how do you know it isn't available
via a capplet?)

Malcolm