Re: Are these "troubles" due to RedHat 8 or Gnome 2 ?

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

As an antidote to the flames in response a few comments

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 15:01, Paul E Johnson wrote:
> I installed RH8 on a clean system and have some troubles. I have some 
> config problems.  If these are due to the much discussed RedHat 
> "improvements" and "simplifications", please let me know and I'll get 
> Gnome some other way.
> 
> 1. How do you choose a Window Manager? That choice is gone from the 
> config setup.

It was taken out, but it has been put back in upstream gnome2

> 2. Without being able to switch Window Managers, I can't see how to make 
> the backgrounds of different workspaces use different images.  Is it 
> possible?

Not at present - can you file a nautilus bug please

> 3. There appears to be no way inside the file manager (Nautilus?) to 
> find out how much space is used in a directory.  Is that right?
> 
> 4. gnome-terminal no longer accepts a command-line argument to indicate 
> which pixmap should be used on the background.  After choosing a pixmap 
> in the menu system, the background does not scale with the terminal 
> window. Is it supposed to be that way?
> 
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