Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x
Date: 17 Dec 2002 05:17:41 -0800

> I do not want Gnome with Nautilus because it is too havy and too clumsy...
> I'd prefer rather traditional SawFish and some functionalities that are no
> longer supported: workspace auto-switching (as mouse cursor moves to border)
> or window vertical or horizontal maximize, respectively, on middle or right
> mouse click...
>
> Sadly, there is no configuration option (in Gnome Control Center) to run
> Gnome2 with user's arbitrarily chosen windows manager.

Try:

killall metacity; sleep 1; sawfish &

and save the session when exiting. For nautilus try killing it and save the session when you exit.

ne

> > Try:
> >      killall metacity; sleep 1; sawfish &
>
> Unfortunately, the result is Sawfish brings everything behind and is running
> exclusively so no Gnome panels or anything is accessible :(
> When I kill Sawfish then again Gnome is occurring.
>
> How to make Sawfish run within Gnome environment (and not on top of it)?