On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:20:24PM +1000, Allan Duncan wrote: > Lou Hafer wrote: >> Folks, >> >> I went back and figured out what I'd done to get sawfish-ui to appear in >> the Gnome Preferences -> Windows. There needs to be a copy of >> sawfish.desktop >> in /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties/sawfish-wm.desktop, with an entry for >> ConfigExec=sawfish-ui. I tried putting sawfish-wm.desktop in >> .local/share/gnome/wm-properties but this didn't work for me. Combined >> with a copy of sawfish.desktop in .local/share/applications, this works >> pretty well. A 10 second startup delay is a small price to pay to ditch >> metacity. > > Much too complicated. I just used the gconf editor to add sawfish as the wm, > (key /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager value sawfish). > then after an X restart sawfish is the windows manager. I don't remember how > I got sawfish-ui installed, I certainly didn't do anything beyond the menues > on the panel, so maybe it was automatic. There in System/Preferences is a > new entry Windows, which is the sawfish-ui. Not well named, I'll admit. > > There is nothing I can grep in my home directory that mentions sawfish-ui.
Confirmed, that was precisely my way, too. Mihai
