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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:16:55 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 6 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 11:18:40 am | by MattBrown | Revert |
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* Per user: =$ gconftool -s /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default -t string /usr/bin/sawfish=
* System wide: edit /usr/share/gnome/default.wm (maybe)
If the above fails because you have a previously saved session with metacity, then loading the Gnome Session manager, deleting 'Default' and then adding a new 'Default' seems to allow sawfish to start.
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+According to [Twisted Radix|http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:chp1caEB9MgJ:radix.twistedmatrix.com/+Sawfish+ubuntu&hl=en&client=firefox-a], this doesn't work on GNOME 2.12+.
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+<blockquote>Edit or create ~/.gnomerc and add "export WINDOW_MANAGER=sawfish" (or whatever) to it.
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+Apparently Gnome 2.12 (and hence Ubuntu Breezy) decided to stop supporting the /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager entry in gconf. The key says "This key has been deprecated since GNOME 2.12", but what they mean is "broken", not "deprecated" (from what I can tell).</blockquote>
!! Various Power toys for tweaking hidden Gnome preferences
http://live.gnome.org/PowerUserTools
