[PLUG] Changing Window Managers in Gnome 2.x - Solution

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Tue Jul 16 18:33:03 UTC 2002


I found this after a little bit of digging.  i figured it was something
weird and obvious.

The script that sets the window manager is /usr/bin/gnome-wm.

If the environment variable "WINDOW_MANAGER" is not set, it looks
through the list and runs the first one it finds.  Check the script for
valid options.  (I do not have Gnome 2 on this machine yet.)  The ones I
remember are "metacity", "sawfish", and "sawmill".  There are a number
of others on the list.

It would be nice if it were a little easier for the average user to
find. Glad I am not the average user...








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