Switch desktop on scroll, was Re: Changing WM in Gnome

Todd Slater dontodd at columbus.rr.com
Thu May 12 15:07:36 UTC 2005


On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:53:11AM +0200, albi at scii.nl wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2005 20:38:27 -0400
> Todd Slater <dontodd at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to use XFwm4 instead of metacity for WM in Gnome, but I can't
> > figure out how to switch. I tried "killall metacity; xfwm4" but
> > metacity seems to come back to life.
> 
> looks like /usr/bin/gnome-wm (a shell-script) has the answer :
> 
> # The user can specify his prefered WM by setting the WINDOW_MANAGER
> # environment variable or setting the
> # /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default gconf key.
> 
> so, try :
> export WINDOW_MANAGER=xfwm4

Cool, that does it, thanks. Unfortunately this doesn't do what I was
hoping--I'd like to switch desktops on mouse scroll on empty desktop
space. It works with mouse on desktop switcher, but not on desktop. Can
you configure that with gconf, too?

Todd




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