[PLUG] Redhat 7.3.92 so far...

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Mon Jul 15 20:47:05 UTC 2002


On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 13:50, AthlonRob wrote:
> On 15 Jul 2002 11:24:56 -0700
> "Alan" <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
> 
> > The distribution defaults to the Gnome 2.0 desktop.  it is not quite
> > as full featured as the old desktop, but works smoother.  I cannot
> > find how to change Window managers within Gnome2, however.  It uses
> > Metacity for its themes, but the theme changer is set for Sawfish. 
> > This is a royal pain.  (The default theme is OK, but reminds me too
> > much of XP.)  There are few, if any, themes for Metacity yet. 
> > http://themes.freshmeat.net
> > does not have any themes for it yet.
> 
> Just edit your xinitrc file.  :-)
> 
> It's in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (where it is symlinked to whichever WM I
> decide I want).  YMMV.  That isn't with RH.

There used to be an app that would switch it for the current desktop. 
It was part of the Gnome configuration tool, but has gone missing since
Gnome 2.x.

I know I can hack it at that point. I tend to avoid the system wide
changes for Window managers.  (If I can help it.)







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