Re: [gnome-slackware]Problems making sawfish work

[Bart Kuik <kuik alwaysaccess nl>]

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 21:20, Alexandre Florio wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>     I'm having some problems making sawfish work in my just-installed
> Slackware 9.0 box.
>     I downloaded the sources and installed sawfish without problems.
>     I'm setting the variable WINDOW_MANAGER to sawfish, so gnome-wm can
> override its default window manager and launch sawfish.  However, something
> is making gnome-wm launch wmaker instead!
>     I think I'm missing something obvious, but I couldn't find it after
> reading extensively the docs and mailing lists...
> 

while gnome is running, kill wmaker ('killall wmaker'), start sawfish
(applications->run 'sawfish') and save your session when you log out.
When you log in the next time, sawfish should be your windowmanager...

Bart