RedHat8.0: How to change WM to sawfish?!

Flinch · 02-10-2003, 06:17 PM

Hi.

i want to use sawfish as standard-windowmanager. i've installed the librep, rep-gtk - stuff and sawfish2.0-4. but now i've no clue how i tell my system to use sawfish as my current windowmanager. when i start switchdesk i can only choose between gnome and twm. I'm running redhat8.0 and i'm using the graphical-logon.

Thanks for any help.

.Flinch

born4linux · 02-10-2003, 07:11 PM

the default wdm in RHL 8 is metacity. u can switch to sawfish by:

1. login first
2. open terminal window
3. run this:

killall metacity & sawfish

4. wait until sawfish takes over
5. before your logout SAVE ur current settings.

this is only for the currernt user.

hth.

mhearn · 02-11-2003, 02:34 PM

That should be:

killall metacity; sawfish &;

You may need to stop it respawning in the session manager first.