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Date:      Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:46:05 -0700
From:      David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        Jason La <jasonla_@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Configuring GNOME, X, and Enlightenment
Message-ID:  <399AD35D.6ED5A2E6@acuson.com>
References:  <F25OkkD5p0ZDR0cTc1y00001e0e@hotmail.com>

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Jason La wrote:
> 
> I have GNOME installed and I have Enlightenment installed. I want
> Enlightenment to be the window mangager of my gnome session... but whenever
> I start enlightenment, it loads it's themes and button settings.
> 
> I just want enlightenment to be the window manager, nothing else. No themes,
> no other panels besides what GNOME creates.

Since GNOME does not have its own window manager, it must use another,
typically enlightenment or sawmil/sawfish. No window manager duties are
performed by GNOME. This leads to an annoying fact under GNOME:

You have two kinds of themes! There are window manager themes, which
enlightenment is in charge of, and widget themes, which GNOME/GTK is in
charge of. A right click on the desktop should (?) get you a menu that
you can change the enlightenment theme with. The GNOME themes can be
accessed through the main GNOME menu (the foot), then select the control
panel. It's been a while since I used GNOME, but there may also be a way
to access the window manager theme through the GNOME control panel.

As for those extra panels, I'm assuming you mean the icon box and
desktop panels. Right clicking on their title bars or frames should
bring up a menu that you can use to close them. Then if you save the
session, when you exit, they will not come up again.

David


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