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
