Re: Controlling window behavior

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:38:21AM -0500, Steve White wrote:
> In particular, the right mouse button does not lead to the window
> menu, and neither does Alt-spacebar as specified in the
> docs.

It's Alt+rightclick, but Alt+spacebar should work. Note that these
docs are metacity-specific. I'm not sure what window manager you have.
If it's metacity, those things work for everyone else afaik, I've
never gotten a bug report on it... you can debug metacity by doing
"METACITY_USE_LOGFILE=1 METACITY_VERBOSE=1 metacity --replace" to
create a log file of what it's up to.

It's also possible I suppose that SuSE changes the defaults or
something.

> Starting with the Gnome menu and choosing Applications->Desktop
> Preferences->Advanced->Sawfish->* in an attempt to change the
> behavior of the window manager leads to nothing. After selecting
> each item presented in the list (i.e. moving and resizing windows)
> the hierarchical menu selections simply disappear with no useful
> configuration program launched.

The Sawfish control panels don't start if you aren't running sawfish.
GNOME 2.2 doesn't include sawfish though (or its control panels), it
uses metacity instead. GNOME 2.0 officially included Sawfish but most
distributions shipped GNOME 2.0 with metacity anyway (Mandrake, Red
Hat, and Solaris). I'm not sure about SuSE.

Havoc