On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 15:10, Fr�d�ric Crozat wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:17:16 +0200, kri wrote : > > >> Sawfish is no longer the default window manager for GNOME 2. It is now > >> metacity.. > > > > *is confused* - why does the gnome2 site list sawfish then? O.o Otr is > > it Mandrake's choice to use metacity? Or is the gnome2 doc somehow not > > up to date? > > GNOME 2 can use whatever window manager which follows the EHWM spec > (www.freedesktop.org). > > Sawfish will soon be replaced by Metacity in GNOME (probably for GNOME > 2.2) and we choose to switch earlier, because metacity works better and > is much simpler than sawfish (RH did the same think and if you discuss > with GNOME hackers, almost everybody uses metacity..)
How is metacity configured? I tried it but it does not appear to have an option to place window intelligently. ie. not in the top left corner all the time. -- - Antony Suter (sutera internode on net) "Exner" - "Tools to make tools."
