Re: Default WM for Gnome in RH 9

[David Shochat <shochat acm org>]

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.
I had exactly the same question when I first got RH8 and got an answer 
on this list from Havoc Pennington. Here is what he said (it worked). I 
can tell you that my wife uses Sawfish and I use Metacity under RH9 (she 
likes the greater choice of window decorations and doesn't mind the fact 
that it forgets the number of workspaces when you log out). I was amazed 
that when I brought up RH9, there still was no simple way to choose 
which WM you want. Maybe RH10? Back in earlier RH versions, it was easy 
and obvious.
-- David

Havoc Pennington wrote on 10/19/2002:

> You change WM the same way you change any other default app in the
> session - kill the current one, start a new one, save the session.
> Or edit ~/.gnome2/session directly.
>
> You can try "killall metacity; sawfish" followed by
> "gnome-session-save" though metacity will respawn, sometimes before
> sawfish starts; so you may have to try a couple times. Or another way
> is to open "gnome-session-properties" and remove metacity from the
> session that way, maybe after doing "sleep 20 && sawfish" in a
> terminal.
>
> It's cleaner if the WM you want to switch to supports "-replace" or
> "--replace", then you can do something like:
>
> fvwm2 -replace
> gnome-session-save
>
> without all the killall business. That's really the intended way for
> it to work.
>
> Havoc