using xfwm in gnome?

[Matt Price]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 05:57:59PM +0200, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
> Matt Price writes:
> 
> > Hi Folks,
> > I have recently upgraded my computer to a sizzling new amd64-dual core and
> > it's FAST.  I like the new gnome desktop very much but the window manager is
> > driving me crazy and I really miss my old xfwm bindings and so forth.  Is it
> > possible to change the window manager in gnome to xfwm?  I can't locate a
> > setting anywhere that says "window manager".  Any hints?  
> 
> Yes it is possible. I used xfwm4 some weeks, but an update broke the
> window list functionality, so now I'm using sawfish again.
> 
> I followed the instructions on
> 
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-88393.html
> 
> to replace metacity with xfwm4.

ah.  unfortunately the forums seem to be down.  But I tried variations on:

killall metacity & xfwm4

but they never seem to work.  ah well, I can wait till the forums are back up
I suppose.

matt

> 
> HTH,
> 
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