Re: To sawfish from metacity?

[Dale Huckeby <spock evansville net>]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, fuchur wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:35:53 -0500 (CDT)
> wrote Dale Huckeby <spock evansville net>:
>
> > Since I don't know of a sawfish for dummies list I hope this one isn't too
> > inappropriate for my questions. I used sawfish before gnome dropped it (when
> > it was still sawmill, I think) and liked it, but haven't been able to use it
> > since. I recently decided to make another effort, but so far no joy. I've
> > been opening a terminal window and issuing the command:
> > : killall metacity; sleep 2; sawfish &
> > but it doesn't seem to change anything. If I close that terminal window I
> > lose my panel as well as the close, maximize and minimize buttons on the
> > windows of any apps I open. In fact, I lose the ability to do anything at
> > all and end up having to do a Ctl-Alt-Backspace into a reboot, at which
> > point I'm right back in metacity. I hope I'm not imposing but i wonder if
> > anybody can give me some idea as to how to get rid of metacity (tenacity?)
> > and replace it with sawfish in gnome as my window manager?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Dale Huckeby (frustrated end-user)
>
> Hi,
>
> If you use gnome >= 2.24 open gconf-editor. Then desktop -> gnome ->
> session -> required_components and replace metacity with sawfish
> by windowmanager and restart gnome session. Good luck.

Thanks. I'm running sawfish now, although some issues remain. For instance, 
not all parts of sawfish-ui work, and when I click on <Windows> in the 
<Preferences> menu I get this:

Cannot start the preferences application for your window manager

Window manager "Sawfish" has not registered a configuration tool

And when I change window borders it works only for the window whose
title bar I've just right-clocked on, and reverts to the previous window 
border if I close and then re-open that app. It appears that metacity is, in 
a sense, still the ghost in the machine. Any further thoughts? Thanks again
for showing me how to switch from metacity to sawfish.

Dale Huckeby