On 22Dec2006 21:12, William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > | Who or what is responsible for positioning newly opened windows in | > | Fedora 6 and Gnome 2.16? Is it Fedora, Xorg, Gnome, MetaCity, or the | > | application. | > Metacity - it is the window manager. | > | Well, you answered my question. Positioning for MetaCity is not a bug. | For Fedora it might be in that positioning for Window Manager strikes mu | as an essential service. It it isn't provided Fedora Core should look | to installing with a new manager. Well, I'm sure it ships with a few window managers, and it is empirically true that nothing suits everyone. [...] | I have checked MetaCity three ways to Sunday. None of the above | mentioned configuration tools (all actually different versions of the | same backend) deals with window positioning Ah well then. | > Sounds like you need to move to a window manager that offers more | > control. | | Is there any big cost or loss in efficiency by using FVWM or icewm? Not really. They are both configured via a dot-file in your home directory. You can install fvwm and maybe icewm with yum. Both are small and efficient. FVWM is the more configurable of the two, and arguably the most configurable window manager out there. Yum will probably install a 2.4 series fvwm; I run a 2.5 (development) version, which is very stable. Out of the box the default fvwm config is very boring, but if you look at the screenshots page at www.fvwm.org you can see much is possible. If you start fvwm from a terminal window with the "-r" option it should cleanly take over from your metacity wm. That way you can experiment without damaging your default desktop config. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ >From the EXUP mailing list <exup-brotherhood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ... Wayne Girdlestone <WayneG@xxxxxxxxxx>: WG> Let's say there are no Yamaha's or Kawa's in the world. Stevey Racer <ssturm@xxxxxxxxxxx>: SR> sriw - so then you are saying that Revelations (from the Bible) has come SR> true and Hell is now on Earth. WG> Your choice for you new bike is either a new '98 fuel injected SRAD, or a WG> new '98 Fireblade. SR> sriw -The devil's minions - full of temptation but never fulfilling their SR> promise.
