I would like to change the window manager gnome uses from metacity to fluxbox. I know that I previously read a guide for changing the defatult window manager but now I just can't find it again (sic). When googling on the subject I find that there should be an option in the gnome control center that allows you to change the window manager but when I fire up gnome-controll-center I can't find this option.
I use gnome-session 2.0.5

After a bit of fighting and mucking about I found that the script gnome-wm determines the windowmanager gnome uses. So I edited the script to launch fluxbox instead of metacity. This worked. Fluxbox started. BUT (there is always a but, in the beginning) gnome does not finish startup. After starting window manager step gnome stops not starting Nautilus and what ever other services it should.
I have to kill X with ctrl-alt-backpspace.

None of the apps that start during my normal fluxbox startup start when I start start gnome with fluxbox.

Do any one know of a better way to change the window manager or how to get gnome to start all the way?

Cheers

ive always seen the options for that in the gnome program menu but i havent used gnome in a long time, try editing your .xinitrc add the line exec /usr/bin/fluxbox or wherever your fluxbox binary is, you may need to search for it, or try using just exec fluxbox because it may be in your PATH

I am starting flux from the .xinitrc already. If I want to start gnome from this file I add the line
gnome-session

this works fine and gnome starts.

But this does not effect the window manager gnome uses. Beacuse if I add fluxbox before gnome-session, fluxbox boots then when I shutdown fluxbox gnome starts. And exactly the same btu the other way around if I put fluxbox after gnome-session.

So I need a way to tell gnome to boot fluxbox instead of metacity. This was done with the gnome-wm script, but it also made gnome stop booting. So it did not solve my problem.