On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 10:30, christophe barbe wrote: > I can't figure out how to use sawfish in gnome2. > With the below settings, if I remove metacity, I get a gnome session > without window manager instead of sawfish. > > I have set the alternative: > > ~$ update-alternatives --display x-window-manager > x-window-manager - status is manual. > link currently points to /usr/bin/sawfish > /usr/X11R6/bin/twm - priority 40 > slave x-window-manager.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/twm.1x.gz > /usr/bin/sawfish - priority 70 > slave x-window-manager.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/sawfish.1.gz > /usr/bin/metacity - priority 40 > Current `best' version is /usr/bin/sawfish. > > I have set sawfish in my gconf: > > ~$ cat .gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/%gconf.xml > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <gconf><entry name="default" mtime="1037058583" muser="christophe" > type="string"><stringvalue>/usr/bin/sawfish</stringvalue></entry><entry > name="current" mtime="1037058923" muser="christophe" > type="string"><stringvalue>/usr/bin/sawfish</stringvalue></entry></gconf> > > I have even set WINDOW_MANAGER in ~/.gnomerc > > ~$ cat .gnomerc > export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/sawfish > export [EMAIL PROTECTED] > export GDK_USE_XFT=1 > exec gnome-session > > And it's still defined to sawfish once logged: > > ~$ echo $WINDOW_MANAGER > /usr/bin/sawfish > > What I have missed? >
I switched back to sawfish by changing metacity to normal instead of respawn in session under advanced preferences, then killall metacity; sleep 1; sawfish & I then set sawfish to respawn in the session manager, I think. -- First Impressions are Bunk.
