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Date:      Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:52:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com>
To:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GNOME 2.0 & WM's
Message-ID:  <20020727115102.O93552-100000@boise.neuroflux.com>
In-Reply-To: <F220dbyyail2BIWib9X00004751@hotmail.com>

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Ryan "leadZERO" Sommers
Gamer's Impact President
ryans@gamersimpact.com
ICQ: 1019590
AIM/MSN: leadZERO

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On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Maxime Romano wrote:

> (I always godamn forget to forward to the list, so here's an approximatio=
n
> 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 ru=
n
> > > 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, wh=
ich
> would usually be something like /usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment .
>
> -Maxime Romano
>

I attempted to change teh default and current keys to Enlightenment's
path. However, when I go to restart GNOME it resets the default to Sawfish
and runs it instead of Enlightenment. Any ideas?

> (Again, sorry for forgetting to forward this to the list, Joe.  I have th=
is
> 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
> > >
> > > -=3D http://www.gamersimpact.com =3D-
> > >
> > >
> > >
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