On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:45:39 +0200, 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?

In metacity-setup : "Mandrake/Configuration/GNOME/Metacity-setup".. 
All settings are going to be merged in the differents GNOME control center
dialogs (keybindings, etc..)

> 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.

This is a work in progress..


-- 
Fr�d�ric Crozat
MandrakeSoft


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