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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(inline) --=20 Ryan "leadZERO" Sommers Gamer's Impact President ryans@gamersimpact.com ICQ: 1019590 AIM/MSN: leadZERO -=3D http://www.gamersimpact.com =3D- 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- > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world=92s 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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