Re: Gnome2.2 Window Manager

["Mark C" <lists@funkypenguin.net>]

> Hi
> I am using ICE Windoe Manager and I am not very happy with it.
> What is the default window manager for Gnome2.2 ?


KDE ;)

Seriously, it depends, AFAIK know on debian its sawfish, but you can
change this to metacity (as this is AFAIK the gnome specified default).

metacity seems faster, but less options, if you wish to use metacity, then:

apt-get install metacity metacity-setup

Once logged in to gnome, if you wish to use metacity, open gnome
terminal/xterm or whatever and run:

Find the Process ID of sawfish (ps -ax | grep sawfish)
kill -9 (pidof sawfish) && metacity

If you try to kill sawfish and not run metacity straight after, I have had
problems, with gnome not knowing how to place the windows, thus unable to
start metacity (without a struggle)

Once started, close terminal, this will restart metacity, and then logout
and save session, thus the next time it will default to metacity.

Hope that helps

Mark