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

[James Amundson <amundson fnal gov>]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 12:05, Alan wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks for the suggestion. It worked. (I can't believe I didn't just do
that in the first place...)

The '&' seems to work fine.

Thanks,
Jim