On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:45 -0500, Paul Michael Reilly wrote: > Why does Gnome (and Fedora) not have a Window Manager preference > selector? Metacity is the official GNOME window manager and thus it is the window manager being used by GNOME. I don't think the reasoning need be more complex than that. If you do want/need to switch WMs then the odds are good you will do it exactly once and thus don't need some utility cluttering the menus for all eternity. > Having to simultaneously kill one WM while starting up another on the > command line seems so twentieth century. Why would you have to do that? You would gnome-session-properties to control what's running in your session. (Applications -> Preferences -> More -> Sessions) Highlight metacity, select remove, select apply (metacity is then permanently killed for you), run your preferred window manager from a run dialog or whatever, set it to "restart" if it doesn't automatically, and then save the session. If the WM doesn't support session management you'll have to add it to the Startup Programs list with a low priority number. -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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