On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:36:08 +0530 Tahir Hashmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Under-featured window manager: > > The MetaCity Window manager doesn't have any options for > layering > management and attribute memory. I can't keep EveryBuddy on top now. > > - No options for custom keyboard short-cuts: > > Unlike Enlightenment or Sawfish, there's no provision for > having > keyboard shortcuts to run commands. There's a lot more move-move > click-click involved now. > > - No option to switch Window Managers! > I installed RH8 clean on one system and upgraded another. The > former doesn't have sawfish, the latter doesn't have an option to > switch Window Managers, even though it has Sawfish. OK, I managed to kill the above three birds... er... problems. The first two can be solved by using a more capable WM. RH has not provided any obvious means to switch window managers so it's a bit of an exercise everytime you login. Here goes: - Select "Failsafe" session from the login prompt and login. - In the resulting Xterm, run "gnome-wm &". This looks for the value of the environment variable "WINDOW_MANAGER" and launches the one indicated. I set it to sawfish. - Voila! Sawifish is up and running. Just do "gnome-session & gnome-panel&" and you're through!! - To logout, kill the original Xterm window. Not very neat, all this, but you can do neat things with your profile. Here's what went into my .bash_profile: export WINDOW_MANAGER="sawfish" -- some other stuff -- gnome-wm & gnome-session & gnome-panel & These two lines allow me to login and run Sawfish directly. It also has a good side-effect - an Xterm window :D >From the manpage of gnome-wm it seems that it has an option --replace to replace the currently running window manager but somehow it didn't work for me. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
