http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q8
as it says on that page: killall sawfish && sleep 5 && metacity&
and as for the dashes disappearing, it's actually the other way around.
they started out WITHOUT dashes, but the GNU argument convention
dictated their insertion.
-Adam
>> (09.22.2002 @ 2019 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 0.8K: <<
> Hi List how is everyone? When I am in Gnome 2 and go to my MainMenu
> button, then Applications > DesktopPreference > Advanced > WindowManager it
> says "Metacity (Current)." But when I run...
>
> # ps auxww | grep sawfish | grep X11
> root 2207 0.0 1.0 8028 4984 ?? Ss 8:13PM 0:01.27 /usr/X11R6/bin/sawfish
>--sm-client-id 106ea433a2000103250212600000033730002 --sm-prefix a62se3o4ox
>
> ...it looks as though sawfish squeaked in there somehow! Anyone any ideas?
>
> My second question is simple and silly. Why do some commands such as tar
> and ps not require the dash as in `ps auxww` and `tar zxvf file.tgz`?
>
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>> end of "sawfish saws through metacity" from Peter Leftwich <<
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