[ale] Swithcing to WindowMaker

[Matthew Brown]

RATS!!!

I think you're right here.  When I run gnomecc from a term.  I see that
Metacity is the default, and I cannot switch to anything - including
plain Sawfish.  Now all my window banners are changed as well.



Best regards,
Matthew Brown, President
CorData, Inc.
O: (770) 795-0089
F: (404) 806-4855
E: matthew.brown at cordata.net


-----Original Message-----
From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 2:30 PM
To: Matthew Brown
Cc: 'ALE'
Subject: RE: [ale] Swithcing to WindowMaker


Then you have a buggered gnome installation. I am running Ximians gnome
stuff. On the top panel, there is the "System" selection. The first
choice is "Settings". It brings up the "Control Center". Under "Desktop"
is the "Window Manager" choice. As I have installed a bunch of managers,
I can choose between Enlightenment, Sawfish, twm, WindowMaker, and XFwm.
Once the choice is made, clicking "OK" saves it. The "Try" button
activates it immediately. 

You can also access the control center from a terminal window. "gnomecc"
will start it. There is also a "menu" selection in the control center
that allows you to choose what option are in the pop-up/drop-down menus.

On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 14:14, Matthew Brown wrote:
> I don't have a Settings selection under the Gnome paw.
> 
> But, if I run gnome-control-center, the Desktop Preferences icon 
> bombs... Says it has no handler for that file type.
> 
> Best regards,
> Matthew Brown, President
> CorData, Inc.
> O: (770) 795-0089
> F: (404) 806-4855
> E: matthew.brown at cordata.net
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vernard Martin [mailto:vernard at cc.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 2:04 PM
> To: Matthew Brown
> Cc: 'ALE'
> Subject: Re: [ale] Swithcing to WindowMaker
> 
> 
> > I run gnome through gdm.  So far none of the examples have worked in
> > switching me from sawfish to wmaker.
> 
> Ah. You will have touse the Gnome Control Panel to change window 
> managers.
> 
> Click on the main Gnome button on your Gnome panel and then choose 
> Settings and then Chose Gnome Control Center. When the window pops up,

> go to the Desktop section and click on Window Manager. WindowMaker 
> should be one of the options there. Click on it and then click on 
> "Try". If it starts up then clikc on Ok. and then quit. Next time you 
> restart Gnome via either restarting X or just logging out and logging 
> back in, you'll be using WindowMaker.
> 
> hope this helps
> 
> V
> --
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