Am Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:15:29 +1000 schrieb Allan Duncan <amd2345 fastmail com au>: > 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. > > > > It's sad the the Gnome folks are moving in a direction that > > will lock them into some derivative of the metacity code base. More > > generally, it's sad that they're moving away from the flexibility > > that's characterised X-based window systems for so long. > > So this 10 second delay is caused by (from ~/.xsession-errors) > gnome-session[2757]: WARNING: Application 'sawfish.desktop' failed to > register before timeout I guess. > > I've compared sawfish.desktop with metacity.desktop and seen no > obvious candidates. 10 seconds on a fast machine buys a lot of > computing, so it isn't librep being slow to run. > > I've yet to wade through gdm's operation to see if it loads metacity > before any user login (something has to handle the login selection > display). This is because sawfish does not have any notification, that it's running, therefore the delay. Chris -- In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
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