From: Geoffrey <eso...@3t...> - 2002-12-09 14:19:10
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Mark R. Bowyer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Geoffrey wrote: > | You can run the gnome stuff on top of E. I'm running gnome 2.0 on top > | of 16.5. Simply invoke gnome-panels once E is up. I've not automated > | this process since I rarely shut my box down. > > You can do it the other way around to. In both Gnome 1.4 and 2.0 I've > switched off safish/metacity and had it start Enlightenment instead. > Works quite well. In 1.4 it's easy to add any WM to the Window Manager > capplet and tell it to start it. Agreed, and that's just what I did when running 1.4. > In 2.0 it's harder. You have to kill > metacity, start enlightenment, then tell the Session Properties dialogue > not to start metacity again, and add Enlightenment as a high priority > non-managed process. Evolution doesn't talk to Gnome2.0's WM connection > stuff, so the panel applets for window controls, etc, don't work. But > otherwise it's fine. Personally, starting up gnome, killing metacity and starting E sounds a bit painful. Start E first, then just execute gnome-panel. It's certainly faster. Most of the gnome stuff does not work with E though. Things like the window list and such. Gnome folks blame E, but I have a hard time understanding that since Gnome 1.4 worked with E, and Gnome 2.0 does not. E did not change, Gnome did. Don't want to start a flame war here okay? I've gotten used to using the windows list from the dragbar in E, but I do miss some of the functionality of the windows list from gnome 1.2. -- Until later: Geoffrey eso...@3t... The latest, most widespread virus? Microsoft end user agreement. Think about it... |