Re: To sawfish from metacity?

[Dale Huckeby <spock evansville net>]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Brett Viren wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Dale Huckeby <spock evansville net> wrote:
> > The panel was
> > framed, with a (non-sawfish) title bar running its entire length. It was
> > actually in its own window.
>
> I had this happen with sawfish when I recently upgraded from the
> Ubuntu package to a built from source install.  I was killing metacity
> and starting sawfish manually to test things out and got the gnome
> panels dressed up as normal windows with title and borders.  After
> going to System->Preferences->Startup Applications and editing the
> Window Manager to point to the newly installed sawfish executable the
> problem went away after a re-login.

I thought about that, but the fact that there was no entry for metacity
made me wonder if metacity OR sawfish was, for the purposes of that
configuration tool, considered a startup program? More specifically, since
there was no obvious way, via that tool, to make metacity NOT something
that was supposed to automatically start, I was afraid that adding an entry
for sawfish might really bung things up. Thanks for clearing that up. (So
what keeps metacity from trying to start up, since it normally does so even
without an entry? Do I need to check the "Automatically remember running
applications when logging out" box, or is having a sawfish entry enough to
supercede the default?)

Dale