RH 8.0 Question

[Matthew J. Brodeur]

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On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:

> There is no mechanism provided by GNOME 2 to change your window manager.

   As I pointed out to you (Derek) in a private mail (which I probably 
haven't yet sent), this isn't true.  The "right" way to switch to a new WM 
is to run:
$ [newwmname] --replace

   Of course sawfish, the only(?) other Gnome compliant WM in RHL 8.0, 
doesn't support the replace feature.  This leads to an incredibly nasty 
hackish way of doing things:

* run gnome-session-properties
* run something like "sleep 30;sawfish &"
* In those 30 seconds, go to the "Current Session" tab in 
gnome-session-properties, select metacity, click "Remove", click "Apply", 
wait
* When sawfish starts, select it in the session list, set the "Order" to
something sensible (20 seems good), set "Style: Restart", click apply.
* run gnome-session-save
* exit gnome-session-properties
* run gnome-session-save when you have a reasonable set of apps open.

   Easy, huh?  The extra gnome-session-save is to prevent 
gnome-session-properties from being run every time you start X.

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Matthew J. Brodeur                                             RHCE, GSEC
MBrodeur at NextTime.com                             http://www.NextTime.com

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