Re: Window properties - roles?

[Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>]

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 12:01 -0500, Andy Harrison wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Mariano Su�z-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar> wrote:
> >
> > Metacity certainly does not allow you do do that kind of things.
> > The good news is, you can replace metacity with pretty much any other
> > window manager which complies with the Window Manager Specification
> > <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fwm_2dspec> (there is a list
> > of window managers in that page)
> 
> Ok, I installed openbox just for kicks.  Never tried it.  However I
> can't seem to figure out how to change the default window manager in
> Gnome.  I tried searching for "window_manager" in gconf-editor, and
> setting the current and default key values to a different window
> manager and it doesn't work and shows that it is a deprecated option
> anyway.  I can't seem to find information on it in the documentation
> on the gnome website either.
> 
> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10, xorg-6.9.0, gnome2-2.16.2.

When everything else fails, it is time to read the docs:
<http://icculus.org/openbox/docs.php?page=build.html#install-gnome>

-- m