Re: How do I switch window managers in Gnome 2.2?

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:27:06AM -0500, James Amundson wrote:
> 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

I've never used a sleep, and I don't think that having the & on the end
works just 

	killall metacity ; sawfish

Then manually background with ^Z then 'bg' and then exit the shell
cleanly, all should be well! (don't forget to save your session! :)

alan

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