On date Monday 2007-05-28 13:46:47 -0400, Jim Hartley gnomed: > I think the problem here is the window manager. I found this a nuisance > when I upgraded to Fedora Core 6 from a VERY OLD system (RedHat 7.0 and > Gnome 1.x). I had been using the Sawfish WM, and before that the > Enlightenment WM. On both of these, you didn't really NEED a workspace > switcher, just moving the cursor off the edge of one workspace > automatically moved it to the next one, and if you were dragging a > window, well, it just went to the next workspace too. The current > Metacity WM lacks this capability. > > I can tolerate (just barely) the need for the switcher, and since I > don't move windows from one workspace to another very often it doesn't > bother me that much. But it sure would be nice if someone could > resurrect Sawfish or an old version of Enlightenment (I believe > Enlightenment is still around but changed beyond recognition from what > it was back then) and provide an alternate WM for the current version of > Gnome. Any volunteers? Pretty please? Sawfish actually works fine with gnome but some minor bugs, all you have to do is to remove metacity from the gnome-session current session, start sawfish and set its gnome-session style to "restart" or "settings". Sawfish actually lacks maintanace, but there is still a certain interest in it, both from developers and from users unsatisfied with the evident limited functionality of metacity (which is considered as a feature for less advanced users), and in sawfish-list they're discussing to resurrect the wiki. Kind regards -- Stefano Sabatini Linux user number 337176 (see http://counter.li.org) _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
