How do I switch window managers in Gnome 2.2?



I am using Gnome 2.2 from RedHat 9. I would like to change my window
manager to something other than Metacity. Several documents I found on
the web suggested typing

	killall -9 metacity; sleep 5; sawfish &

That doesn't work -- metacity restarts immediately. Reducing the sleep
to 1 doesn't help. The Gnome wiki at gnomesupport.org says

"By popular request, the window manager chooser will be back in 2.1 (and
therefore 2.2) despite it being a really wrong idea."

If a window manager chooser made it back into 2.2, either I cannot find
it or RedHat removed it in their version.

So, how do I switch window managers in Gnome 2.2?

Thanks,
Jim Amundson

P.S. Ironically, I was looking forward to using metacity in Gnome 2.2,
having only used Gnome 1.4 with sawfish previously. Metacity sounded
like such a good idea. Now that I have tried it, however, I hate it with
a white-hot passion. I guess that's life.




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