Setting your gnome window manager in Breezy
Edit or create ~/.gnomerc and add "export WINDOW_MANAGER=sawfish" (or whatever) to it.
Apparently Gnome 2.12 (and hence Ubuntu Breezy) decided to stop supporting the /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager entry in gconf. The key says "This key has been deprecated since GNOME 2.12", but what they mean is "broken", not "deprecated" (from what I can tell).
It took me a while to figure this out, so I'm posting it with the intention that google will pick up on it and help other hapless non-metacity users.
1 comments:
Many thanks sir,
It seems even with metacity after going from Hoary to Breezy, I have to create a .gnomerc entry with the env setting for WINDOW_MANAGER
Cheers, and thanks again
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