Slightly dim question - how do I switch window managers? I've decided to try something other than metacity but can't get it to work. The old Gnome 1.4 had a panel for this in the control centre, but the new one doesn't seem to have an equivalent. Installing sawfish2 made it take over the machine, which was OK, but the theme manager crashed every time I tried to run it, which wasn't great so sawfish was uninstalled again. I've installed enlightenment and icewm from the 8.1 DVD but I can't get them to run. If I issue a "kill metacity ;icewm" I get an error: "bash: kill: metacity: no such pid" and icewm won't then start because metacity is still running. Enlightenment offers to rewrite my config to become the default wm, but I'm not too keen on that because (a) it warns that it might get it wrong and (b) I don't know what to change to get it back again if I don't like enlightenment! How do I find out the pid of metacity? Or is there another way to change wm easily in Gnome2? And, on a similar tack - Gnome2 seems to lack the simple "kill task" menu entry of the old Gnome1.4. Is there an easy way to kill tasks under Gnome2? TiA, John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Knossos: escape the ever-changing labyrinth before the Minotaur catches you!
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 04:57, John Pettigrew wrote:
And, on a similar tack - Gnome2 seems to lack the simple "kill task" menu entry of the old Gnome1.4. Is there an easy way to kill tasks under Gnome2?
Run xkill, from an xterm if you have to, and you'll get the little skull and crossbones to kill any window you click on. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Sing blue silver Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
El 02.10.07 a las 09:57, John Pettigrew escribió:
If I issue a "kill metacity ;icewm" I get an error: "bash: kill: metacity: no such pid"
The command kill expect the pid of the task to kill, ie, a number, that you obtain from the output of ps, for example. Probably you wanted to use "killall", that takes a name. But don't use it in unix! -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
In a previous message, Carlos E. R. wrote:
El 02.10.07 a las 09:57, John Pettigrew escribió:
If I issue a "kill metacity ;icewm" I get an error: "bash: kill: metacity: no such pid"
The command kill expect the pid of the task to kill, ie, a number, that you obtain from the output of ps, for example. Probably you wanted to use "killall", that takes a name. But don't use it in unix!
Thanks - I'd since worked it out and managed to try other WMs. Not settled on which one, yet, though. Why not use it in Unix? John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Knossos: escape the ever-changing labyrinth before the Minotaur catches you!
The 02.10.08 at 09:31, John Pettigrew wrote: Because killall in unix kills everything. If you are root, the systems dies ;-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson El 02.10.08 a las 09:31, John Pettigrew escribió:
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:31:42 +0100 From: John Pettigrew
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Switching wm In a previous message, Carlos E. R. wrote:
El 02.10.07 a las 09:57, John Pettigrew escribió:
If I issue a "kill metacity ;icewm" I get an error: "bash: kill: metacity: no such pid"
The command kill expect the pid of the task to kill, ie, a number, that you obtain from the output of ps, for example. Probably you wanted to use "killall", that takes a name. But don't use it in unix!
Thanks - I'd since worked it out and managed to try other WMs. Not settled on which one, yet, though.
Why not use it in Unix?
John
* Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas@tiscali.es) [021007 17:58]: :: :: ::El 02.10.07 a las 09:57, John Pettigrew escribió: :: ::> If I issue a "kill metacity ;icewm" ::> I get an error: "bash: kill: metacity: no such pid" :: ::The command kill expect the pid of the task to kill, ie, a number, that ::you obtain from the output of ps, for example. Probably you wanted to use ::"killall", that takes a name. But don't use it in unix! A killall ships with Solaris 8 and 9 so he could use it. :) You can also use the Solaris version called pkill. That is if your on a Solaris box...don't use it on UNIX didn't tell much. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.
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