On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 00:45, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > 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). >
As far as I can tell. Sawfish is not part of the 9.0 release.
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