On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 14:16, James Drabb wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 21:53, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Hey people, > > > > So, I'm not a big fan of Metacity. It's not customizable. > > > > So, firing up gconf-editor, I hacked the registry at > > > > desktop -> gnome -> applications -> window_manager. > > > > I tried changing both current and default to /usr/bin/sawfish (after > > installing sawfish of course). Neither has had any effect, they're just > > ignored. > > Little help? > > > > Thanks, > > Mike > > gnome-session will remember your window manager. > > Open up a terminal window and type this command: > > kill all metacity; sleep 3; /usr/bin/sawfish & killall metacity; sleep 3; /usr/bin/sawfish & and first, you must change the session style for metacity to normal (not restart), via "Perferences -> More Preferences -> Sessions", or metacity will keep restarting before sawfish can. Cheers, Ben
