Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 00:11:10 -0400 From: "Maxime Romano" <verbophobe@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNOME 2.0 & WM's Message-ID: <F220dbyyail2BIWib9X00004751@hotmail.com>
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(I always godamn forget to forward to the list, so here's an approximation of what I sadly sent to Joe only. I blame Hotmail and George Clooney.) >From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> >To: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> >CC: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: GNOME 2.0 & WM's >Date: 26 Jul 2002 22:19:27 -0400 > >On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 19:57, Ryan Sommers wrote: > > How do you change the window-manager in GNOME2? I'd really like to run > > Enlightenment instead of Sawfish. > >I'm not sure enlightenment will work well in GNOME 2.0. It may not like >the new GNOME 2.0 hooks. However, there is no good way to switch window >managers yet. It's being worked on. I use: > >killall sawfish ; metacity& > >To switch from sawfish to metacity. > >Joe I've never tried Joe's way, but this worked for me: Fire up gconf-editor and go to /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/ and change "default" and "current" to match the path of enlightenment, which would usually be something like /usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment . -Maxime Romano (Again, sorry for forgetting to forward this to the list, Joe. I have this phobia of crowding people's inboxes... Almost as if they were gonna send the mob on me or something...) > > > > > -- > > Ryan "leadZERO" Sommers > > Gamer's Impact President > > ryans@gamersimpact.com > > ICQ: 1019590 > > AIM/MSN: leadZERO > > > > -= http://www.gamersimpact.com =- > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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