On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:52:01 +0200 Frederic Crozat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:07:03 +0200, Quel Qun wrote: > > > 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? > > Sawfish has NEVER displayed desktop icons.. > > Metacity is supposed to do only WM job, not desktop jobs (like > displaying menu applications, ...) > > If you don't like metacity, use sawfish.. > Okay, but *how? No, seriously, I can't seem to find any way to change window managers. Maybe I'm overlooking something but none of the Gnome 2 controls appear to have any such option available. Overall, the beta looks good. Though it's obvious not everything has been converted to work with Gnome 2. The Mandrake menus are missing a *lot. But, then, Gnome 2 changed something about the handling of launchers and I can't quite pin down what. Mark
