On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 16:53, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > 2. How do I switch among window managers? Specifically, how do I > > switch among Metacity, Sawfish, and Enlightenment? (The > > "switchdesk" application won't do this, and the old "Window > > Manager" GNOME preference is gone.) > > For WMs without --replace you need to manually kill the current WM and > save session, "killall metacity; sawfish; gnome-session-save"
metacity will respawn too quickly. Prior to doing that, you should run the GNOME session managment tool, and configure metacity to not respawn. After that, those commands will work.
