<quote who="Ken Foskey">
> I have been having problems with gnome killing stuff because I am building
> in the background and openoffice is just slow to load :-(
>
> How do I raise this gnome2 application timeout period, preferably using
> the GUI.
The timeout when you click the close button of an app that has crashed? I
don't think you can. Perhaps it would be better to use the System Monitor to
kill stuff straight away.
[ For everyone else, metacity has a cute little feature that works similarly
to OS X - when you click the close button of an app that does not respond,
metacity waits and pops up a "Do you want to kill this unresponsive app?"
dialog (forget the real text). ]
> On a similar subject how do I switch window managers in gnome2 via GUI.
> I ended up with:
>
> killall sawfish; metacity &
>
> to switch this is 'less than userfriendly'
There's no method of doing it in the UI. It's kinda regarded as something
advanced users would do, and they don't really need a GUI to do it. :-) Fun
quote in my sig.
- Jeff
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"Not to mention that there's simply no way to explain what a 'window
manager' is without descending into 'PC Load Letter?!' technobabble."
- Havoc Pennington
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