On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:50:13PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:50:39PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > I found a variation of this on a list I follow (I forget which) when I > > had the twm problem. There's a lot of heat but no fire on fixing this > > permanently, as far as I've seen. Some of the core gnome programmers > > aren't interested in making in easy to switch window managers, so this > > is it. ;) > > > > Well, that's not exactly true. We aren't interested in having the term > "window manager" in the GUI (other than in a "power tweak" control > panel that someone might write), but there is a plan for how it should > be easy that should work with fvwm2 right now for example: > > $ fvwm2 -replace & > $ gnome-session-save > > That's it. The problem is just that Sawfish doesn't have the -replace > feature. -replace uses a standard mechanism defined in the ICCCM > (WM_Sn selection).
The PowerTweak approach seems reasonnable. I am convinced that gnome2 has a far better usability record than gnome1 even if I tend to be a poweruser. So my point was not to critizise the way gnome is going. In fact the only thing I miss with metacity is the ability to teach my unnamed window manager to place my app at a given place with a given size. I guess there is a way to do that with metacity but I haven't figure out yet how. Christophe -- Christophe Barb� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Cats seem go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. --Joseph Wood Krutch
