iceWM instead of Gnome

Ingo Lantschner (Lists) ingo.lists at vum.at
Wed Dec 15 12:17:33 UTC 2004


Magnus Therning wrote:

> In the latter case you need to kill Metacity and run IceWM instead:
> 
>  (From memory, so I might be wrong here)
>  1. Make sure Metacity won't be restarted by GNOME by removing it from
>     your current session (System->Preferences->Sessions, check the
>     "Current Session" tab).
>  2. Kill Metacity and run IceWM instead:
>      $ killall -9 metacity; sleep 5; icewm&
>  3. Save your session when you log out.
interesting, thanks! It did work, although the oerformance gain was not 
enough, so I have to replace Gnome completely with iceWM.
Thanks Ingo.


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