Re: Changing WM in Red Hat 9, Gnome 2.2

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:28:55PM -0700, Thad Peck wrote:
> Yes, your right, this is the best approch.  I had a little glitch though.
> 
> "killall metacity && sawfish &"  It kill metacity alright and then 
> restarted it, so:
> 
> I did:
> 
> killall metacity && sawfish
> ctrl-z
> bg
> 
> Then saved the session.  This worked in my accounts

A reasonable solution that not everybody would have thought of. Here is
what was going on (and another approach to the problem): by default,
your window manager is to "restart" by the session manager.  This makes
sense -- if your window manager crashes inadvertently, then it's usually
a good idea to bring it back straight away.

So to prevent metacity from restarting, you should go to the "current
session" tab in the session manager capplet (for example,
Applications->Desktop Preferences->Advanced->Sessions via the panel
menu). Then select the metacity process and set its style to "Normal".
Now you can run the killall line and metacity will really die.

Cheers,
Malcolm

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