Re: sawfish in gnome2

[Rich Rudnick <rich@pinute.com>]

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 10:30, christophe barbe wrote:
> I can't figure out how to use sawfish in gnome2.
> With the below settings, if I remove metacity, I get a gnome session
> without window manager instead of sawfish.
> 
> I have set the alternative:
> 
> ~$ update-alternatives --display x-window-manager
> x-window-manager - status is manual.
>  link currently points to /usr/bin/sawfish
> /usr/X11R6/bin/twm - priority 40
>  slave x-window-manager.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/twm.1x.gz
> /usr/bin/sawfish - priority 70
>  slave x-window-manager.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/sawfish.1.gz
> /usr/bin/metacity - priority 40
> Current `best' version is /usr/bin/sawfish.
> 
> I have set sawfish in my gconf:
> 
> ~$ cat .gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/%gconf.xml
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <gconf><entry name="default" mtime="1037058583" muser="christophe"
> type="string"><stringvalue>/usr/bin/sawfish</stringvalue></entry><entry
> name="current" mtime="1037058923" muser="christophe"
> type="string"><stringvalue>/usr/bin/sawfish</stringvalue></entry></gconf>
> 
> I have even set WINDOW_MANAGER in ~/.gnomerc
> 
> ~$ cat .gnomerc 
> export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/sawfish
> export LANG=fr_FR@euro
> export GDK_USE_XFT=1
> exec gnome-session
> 
> And it's still defined to sawfish once logged:
> 
> ~$ echo $WINDOW_MANAGER
> /usr/bin/sawfish
> 
> What I have missed?
> 

I switched back to sawfish by changing metacity to normal instead of
respawn in session under advanced preferences, then 

killall metacity; sleep 1; sawfish &

I then set sawfish to respawn in the session manager, I think.



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