Re: How to change a default WM for Gnome in RH 9.0?

[Stephen Kuhn <stephen kuhn gmx net>]

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 19:13, Hrvoje Blazevic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Although I spent an hour or so, looking through RH (9.0) docs CD, I could not 
> find the info on how to disable the Metacity WM, and enable Sawfish.
> 
> The end result is that I have to use KDE instead of Gnome.
> 
> I find Metacity "politically" unacceptable. Reminds me of M$, where the 
> attitude is: "You the  user might think that you know what is good for you, 
> but you are rally an idiot, and we (the M$) know what's best for you. 
> Therefore we will not allow you to set up the foculs policy as you want it, 
> because we just know that the click to foucus is the best!"
> 
> BTW: I do know that Metacity does allow focus follows mouse, but makes it 
> *unusable* by not allowing the user to disable raising of the window when the 
> client area is clicked.
> 
> 
> So, I need help: how to disable Metacity, and make Sawfish the default WM?

If all the other tricks fail, you can always rename /usr/bin/metacity
and then create a link CALLED /usr/bin/metacity, but have it point to
/usr/bin/sawfish instead...(worked for me...)

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