at a terminal, type switchdesk xfce to change to xfce or switchdesk gnome to switch back to gnome or rm -r -f kde to remove that annoying KDE from your computer forever. LOLOL... On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 21:52:20 -0500, Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David L Norris wrote: > > 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. > > Appreciate your feedback. Actually, I precisely want the ability to > select a WM, try it out for size for a short while (many minutes) to see > if I want to use it for even longer or if it is clear that this one just > doesn't work for me. I'm curious to see how fvwm works these days. It > was OK years ago. I've never tried Maker but surely would if it were a > click or two away. And I would probably switch back and forth between > sawfish and metacity depending on my mood. I could be unique but I'd > hazard a guess that there are more than a few Users who have this itch > but none of us yet have reached the threshold to actually make it > happen. I'll keep my fingers crossed that someone beats me to it. > So much software to write yet so little time ... :-) > > >>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. > > This is an OK alternative but still a clunky way to tell Gnome I'd > prefer to use sawfish rather than metacity for a while. Thanks for > pointing it out however. > > -pmr > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
