On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:36:08 +0530 Tahir Hashmi code_martial@softhome.net wrote:
Under-featured window manager:
The MetaCity Window manager doesn't have any options for layering
management and attribute memory. I can't keep EveryBuddy on top now.
No options for custom keyboard short-cuts:
Unlike Enlightenment or Sawfish, there's no provision for having
keyboard shortcuts to run commands. There's a lot more move-move click-click involved now.
- No option to switch Window Managers! I installed RH8 clean on one system and upgraded another. The
former doesn't have sawfish, the latter doesn't have an option to switch Window Managers, even though it has Sawfish.
OK, I managed to kill the above three birds... er... problems. The first two can be solved by using a more capable WM. RH has not provided any obvious means to switch window managers so it's a bit of an exercise everytime you login. Here goes:
- Select "Failsafe" session from the login prompt and login.
- In the resulting Xterm, run "gnome-wm &". This looks for the value of the environment variable "WINDOW_MANAGER" and launches the one indicated. I set it to sawfish.
- Voila! Sawifish is up and running. Just do "gnome-session & gnome-panel&" and you're through!!
- To logout, kill the original Xterm window.
Not very neat, all this, but you can do neat things with your profile. Here's what went into my .bash_profile:
export WINDOW_MANAGER="sawfish" -- some other stuff -- gnome-wm & gnome-session & gnome-panel &
These two lines allow me to login and run Sawfish directly. It also has a good side-effect - an Xterm window :D