On 01 Oct 2002 22:33:09 -0500, Chuck Stuettgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 03:54, Alastair Scott wrote:
> > On 29 Sep 2002 17:57:02 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Okay, I give up...
> > >
> > > I've installed 9.0 and overall I'm satisfied, however there is one thing
> > > that is driving me crazy.
> > >
> > > In Gnome, every application opens in the same location, the upper left
> > > corner, no matter where I position the window, the next time I open it
> > > the application are alway in the upper left corner. Some of the apps
> > > will remember their size, but none will remember their last position.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any ideas on how to get Gnome2 to remember the size and
> > > positions of the windows??
> >
> > This is one of the unfortunate side-effects of changing the window manager
> > from sawfish (Gnome 1.4) to metacity (Gnome 2.0.x), which is much simpler
> > but also less capable ...
> >
> > One _can_ change the window manager back to sawfish, but it appears to be a
> > can of worms (try a search for 'gnome metacity sawfish' on Google). I
> > haven't managed to get the change to stick between sessions yet.
> >
> > Alastair
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----
>
> Thanks for the info. I hope the Gnome developers are aware of this
> unwanted "feature" and are planning to do something about it soon.
Try adding the line "export WINDOW_MANAGER=sawfish" (without the quotes) to your
~/.bashrc.
This works for me in Gentoo. I haven't tried it in Mandrake yet (I haven't
upgraded to 9.0 yet).
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