Robert McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyone aware of how to change window manager in Gnome2? I've been > > > brainracking myself for a while about this... > > > > Cannot you still run gnomecc? > > > > -jeff > > a) no, gnomecc is gone. the capplets are programs seperately accessible > through the Applications -> Desktop Preferences menu, and I believe > Nautilus integrates them in a 'Control Panel' style. > > b) the window manager selector is gone: > killall currentwm; sleep 0.2; newwm & > then go to the Sessions control panel thing, and save current session.
... does not always work: On my box x-window-manager is WindowMaker. Even though metacity and sawfish are installed, gnome-session always launches WindowMaker. If I issue the command "killall WindowMaker;metacity" and then select "Save session now", on next login gnome-session will again launch WindowMaker instead of metacity. (fully reproducible) The same did _not_ occur, when I chose sawfish instead of metacity. So the only way I found to make metacity my default WM was 1. killall WindowMaker;sawfish 2. save session 3. log out and back 4. killall sawfish;metacity 5. save session Not really an improvement in terms of usability. :-( P.S.: Please don't tell me to update x-window-manager to point to metacity. As a standalone WM outside of GNOME metacity is quite useless. So I would not want to see it as my default WM. gnome-session's mechanism of selecting a WindowManager should either be independent from Debian's alternatives or a new alternative "gnome-window-manager" should be added. There is a gconf key "/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current", which for some reason pointed to "wmaker" until I changed it manually. No idea why. Maybe this is part of the problem. Johannes -- ~/.signature under construction
