On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 00:45, Antony Suter wrote:
> 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."
>
It is also very slow to minimize or maximize windows (or is it Gnome?).
I realize it's an early stage but will it offer what Sawfish was
missing, mainly desktop icons, middle and right click menus?
=o=
kk1
