Re: migrating from metacity to sawfish

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:26:59PM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 14:16, John Fleck wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 11:06, Zeus wrote:
> > > By deafult in Mandrake 9.0 gnome using Metacity,
> > > can i change it to Sawfish?
> > 
> > Just kill metacity and start sawfish. At the command line:
> > 
> > killall metacity; sawfish &
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > John
> 
> I keep trying the same thing, but the damn Metacity keeps restarting
> before Sawfish has a chance to run...it's getting more and more annoying
> that this issue can't just be resolved with an easy fix. I'm almost to
> the point of chucking Gnome2 in the bin and going back to 1.4+ because
> at least I have control over the environment - and don't have so many
> niggling problems - ASIDE from performance issues...

Are you typing that exact command?  I found that when I did "killall
metacity && sawfish" things would respawn, but the ';' between commands
made it all work.  Course, YMMV....

alan

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