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GNOME and the way forward

GNOME and the way forward

Posted Aug 18, 2005 17:42 UTC (Thu) by newren (guest, #5160)
In reply to: GNOME and the way forward by tjc
Parent article: GNOME and the way forward

The gconf key /desktop/gnome-applications/window_manager/default may come in handy for you. You could also try gnome-session-remove, or editing /usr/share/gnome/default.session or /usr/share/gnome/default.wm or /usr/bin/gnome-wm.

Note also that the same issue occurs trying to run a development version of metacity, for which metacity has the --replace option in order to try to replace the current WM (so I can just run "./src/metacity --replace"). Other WMs probably have a similar option, which would probably be easier than the above; I believe being able to replace another WM is part of the EWMH freedesktop.org spec, though, and I don't know if sawfish supports that or not.


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