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Date:      27 Jul 2002 13:16:42 -0400
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
Message-ID:  <1027790202.46963.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020727115102.O93552-100000@boise.neuroflux.com>
References:  <20020727115102.O93552-100000@boise.neuroflux.com>

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On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 11:52, Ryan Sommers wrote:
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> Ryan "leadZERO" Sommers
> Gamer's Impact President
> ryans@gamersimpact.com
> ICQ: 1019590
> AIM/MSN: leadZERO
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> -=3D http://www.gamersimpact.com =3D-
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> On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Maxime Romano wrote:
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> > (I always godamn forget to forward to the list, so here's an approximat=
ion
> > 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 li=
ke
> > >the new GNOME 2.0 hooks.  However, there is no good way to switch wind=
ow
> > >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_manag=
er/
> > and change "default" and "current" to match the path of enlightenment, =
which
> > would usually be something like /usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment .
> >
> > -Maxime Romano
> >
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> 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 Sawfis=
h
> and runs it instead of Enlightenment. Any ideas?

Yeah, once you have enlightenment running in your current session, exit,
and make sure you click the save session box.

Joe

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> > (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 se=
nd
> > 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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