Red hat 8.0

[Jason Stephenson]

You can always switch your window manager without using the gui to do 
so. You make yourself a .xsession file in your $HOME that starts up the 
window manager of your choice. Of course, you also lose all the gnome 
stuff starting, unless you copy one of the default xsession files and 
change it.

John Abreau wrote:
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> Jason Stephenson <jason at sigio.com> writes:
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>>I use it on my laptop and don't really care. I'm not into pretty GUI 
>>things for the most part, so it doesn't bother me. I don't use my laptop 
>>enough to bother changing it. Though, I do have my root desktop very 
>>simple: no window manager and a xterm as the controlling process.
> 
> 
> The thing that annoyed me most with metacity was the inability to 
> configure
> it to lower a window by right-clicking the titlebar. When I finally got 
> around to googling for a solution, I found the author saying that as far 
> as he's concerned. 90% of users won't care, and therefore nobody really 
> wants that feature. And when complaints persisted, he'd dismiss them with 
> an offhand comment that he's seen thousands of complaints like that, and 
> each new complaint is the exact same thing and therefore just a waste of 
> his time to read. Even after admitting this, it seems he persists in 
> claiming that "nobody really wants that feature".
> 
> The really aggravating part is that Redhat seems to have made a 
> significant
> effort to make it difficult to switch back to sawfish. In the end, I had 
> to kill off metacity and quickly start sawfish before metacity respawned, 
> and then save the gnome session, a procedure I consider inherently 
> fragile.
> It's like Redhat was saying 
> 
>     "If you don't *LIKE* metacity, you don't have to *USE* gnome."
> 
> Kind of reminds me of the Windows Refund crap where manufacturers would 
> tell customers: "If you don't want Windows on your laptop, you don't have 
> to buy a laptop at all".
> 
> The GUI for switching window managers was replaced with one that only lets 
> you choose between gnome, kde, windowmaker, and twm. Yet another roadblock 
> to try to keep metacity in place. 
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