RH 8.0 Question

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 22:14, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
> OK, where does one change the window manager in Gnome in Red Hat 8?
> 
> I can't find it in any of the Preferences or Settings menus.

  Well, well, well.  After post my rant yesterday, I took a look at the
latest Gnome Summary just published yesterday.  Looks like a window
manager selector is slated for Gnome 2.2.  At least one 'complicated and
confusing to the average joe user' feature is being added that I will
find immensely useful (even if it is just once per install/upgrade):
-=-=
==============================================================
4. GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1 released
--------------------------------------------------------------

A snapshot release of GNOME 2.1, the development release series leading
up to GNOME 2.2 is out. Lots of nice little features like improved font
control, window manager selector in the control panel, panel multiscreen
support, return of gdialog and lots of other goodies. Check out the
gnomedesktop.org story for all the details. 

        http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=685&mode=&order=0

-=-=
  I'm going to try to cool down a bit and take some of Havoc
Pennington's advice.  It's an experiment and it's really a first cut
that the Gnome developers need to get feedback on.  Some features
dropped from Gnome 1.4 -> 2.0 may be reintroduced in 2.2 or later.  Some
won't.  But it might not be time to give up on Gnome just yet (at least
for me -- I know some gave up on it long ago ;-)).  Admittedly, most of
what was dropped isn't a huge problem for me (save metacity being the
default window manager).  I did always like the menu panel at the top of
the screen, but won't be using it until I can make it stop being on top
all the time.
  I impatiently await the release of Gnome 2.2.  Hopefully it will fix
most of the bogosities of Gnome 2.0.
-- 
-Paul Iadonisi
 Senior System Administrator
 Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist
 Ever see a penguin fly?  --  Try Linux.
 GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets