How to change window manager for GNOME

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Newsgroups:  comp.os.linux.misc
Date:        Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:19:21 GMT

> I'm running Redhat severn with Gnome and would like to try a different
> window manager other than Metacity.  I couldn't find any docs or any
> messages on google about how to change the window manager.

> Does anyone know how to change the window manager that Gnome uses?

Just kill metacity at the command line and start a new manager.

ie;

killall metacity && /usr/bin/X11/sawfish

David

How to change window manager for GNOME

> If you just want to try another WM, then run this from a terminal:
>
> kill -9 `pgrep metacity`; sawfish

Thanks! (to both you and the other poster). That worked perfectly. If I decide that I like a window manager a lot, do you know how to make it permanent under Red Hat 9?

> Note the backquotes (though nowadays they're deprecated in favor of some
> other syntax which I don't remember).

You're thinking of $() syntax. So:

kill -9 $(pgrep metacity); sawfish

Matt Perry