The 03.02.24 at 10:48, James Ogley wrote:

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In the gnome that came with Suse 7.3 there was a menu option to change the windomanager; I am unable to find it in suse 8.1. Where is it, or how can I change it?

In GNOME2, it's stored as a GConf value, so start the GConf editor (Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor), and navigate to:

/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager

And change the value of 'default' to whatever you want it to be (eg sawfish)

Doesn't work... I had previously tried with the 'current' setting, and it didn't work.

Or, if you want it to take effect immediately, run the following at a command line:

killall -9 VALUE1 ; sleep 2s ; VALUE2

Where VALUE1 is what 'default' was set to originally, and VALUE2 is what you changed it to.

Doesn't work, either: metacity does not die, and sawfish says that I can only have one window manager :-( cer@nimrodel:~> killall -9 metacity ; sleep 2 ; sawfish You may only run one window manager cer@nimrodel:~> There is a flash, and metacity is restarted inmediately. Hold on.. without the sleep, on a terminal, it does work: killall -9 metacity ; sawfish & Then, exiting the sesion with save, and login in again, and the change remains! Thank you! :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

The 03.02.24 at 12:17, Linux World 999 wrote:

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In the gnome that came with Suse 7.3 there was a menu option to change the windomanager; I am unable to find it in suse 8.1. Where is it, or how can I change it?

I think Gnome has to be installed from Yast. An option to use Gonme as WM will then be made availble in the main login screen.

I said window manager, not session type. :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson