Re: [SF] Integration (Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.2)

["Mihai T. Lazarescu" <mtlagm gmail com>]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:20:24PM +1000, Allan Duncan wrote:

> Lou Hafer wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> 	I went back and figured out what I'd done to get sawfish-ui to appear in
>> the Gnome Preferences -> Windows.  There needs to be a copy of sawfish.desktop
>> in /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties/sawfish-wm.desktop, with an entry for
>> ConfigExec=sawfish-ui.  I tried putting sawfish-wm.desktop in
>> .local/share/gnome/wm-properties but this didn't work for me. Combined 
>> with a copy of sawfish.desktop in .local/share/applications, this works 
>> pretty well. A 10 second startup delay is a small price to pay to ditch 
>> metacity.
>
> Much too complicated.  I just used the gconf editor to add sawfish as the wm,
> (key /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager  value sawfish).
> then after an X restart sawfish is the windows manager.  I don't remember how
> I got sawfish-ui installed, I certainly didn't do anything beyond the menues
> on the panel, so maybe it was automatic.  There in System/Preferences is a
> new entry Windows, which is the sawfish-ui.  Not well named, I'll admit.
>
> There is nothing I can grep in my home directory that mentions sawfish-ui.

Confirmed, that was precisely my way, too.

Mihai