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PARENA Guru
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject: Metacity... and yuck |
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Trying to use Gnome 2.2, but I can't live with Metacity. It's an 'okay' window manager, but it misses window 'bumping', you know, where windows 'bump' into each other ('resistance', 'magnetic') and also to the screen sides. That is one feature I can't live without. However, did I miss it somewhere? Is it in Metacity?
Also tried sawfish, but it doesn't feel right... I really want to give Gnome 2.2 an honest shot at becoming my desktop environment, but without a decent window manager, that's not gonna happen...
Maybe you have solutions? Or alternatives or..... ? |
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ebrostig Bodhisattva
Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 3152 Location: Orlando, Fl
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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Do you know of a Window Manager that has the features you describe? If so, you can use that wm rather than MetaCity.
Erik _________________ 'Yes, Firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.' |
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g00se n00b
Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 16
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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Try holding down shift key while dragging windows around..
Only thing I'm missing in metacity is the option to make window stay on top. |
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PARENA Guru
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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ebrostig: yeah, but the problem is that no window manager ever satisfies me enough :/ They all have features that others don't have and they all don't have features that others do have.
g00se wrote: | Try holding down shift key while dragging windows around..
Only thing I'm missing in metacity is the option to make window stay on top. |
ah, that helps a bit... tnx... |
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Schmolch l33t
Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 746 Location: Germany
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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im using gnome2.2 with xfm4 (the window manager from xfce4) because i dont like the window-minimization-animation of metacity and because xfm4 has lots of nice themes.
The bumping-effect is present, but afaik only for the screen-edges.
Which was the Window-Manager which has bumping between windows you are refering to?
Was it the KDE-WindowManager?
If so, just kill Metacity and run kwin instead, you can use whatever WM you want. |
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Delphiki Guru
Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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Schmolch wrote: | If so, just kill Metacity and run kwin instead, you can use whatever WM you want. |
That's not entirely true. I tried to use fluxbox in Gnome once, but it didn't work. It made the Gnome desktop into a window. Not all WM's are Gnome compatible. _________________ Excellent.. |
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sepp2k Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 78
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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Delphiki wrote: | Schmolch wrote: | If so, just kill Metacity and run kwin instead, you can use whatever WM you want. |
That's not entirely true. I tried to use fluxbox in Gnome once, but it didn't work. It made the Gnome desktop into a window. Not all WM's are Gnome compatible. |
You can use every WM with GNOME. OK, some WMs show the desktop in a window, but most people deacitvate their Deskop-Icons so this isn't a problem |
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TenPin Guru
Joined: 26 Aug 2002 Posts: 500 Location: Kansas City
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 11:00 pm Post subject: Sawfish |
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After I emerged Gnome 2.0.3 I found MetaCity to be terrible. It was fairly fast and it worked but had almost no configuration options compared to Sawfish which is what I'm used to. Also fullscreen mplayer mesed up alot in Metacity.
To remedy this I simply unmerged Metacity and emerged sawfish 1.2 which is so far bug free except for the Dock Level bug which I fixed by changing 1 character in the source. Sawfish 1.2 does anti-aliased text in the title bars too.
To set Sawfish as my default WM I just edited my gnome session using the sessions tool. |
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PARENA Guru
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349
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Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Schmolch wrote: | im using gnome2.2 with xfm4 (the window manager from xfce4) because i dont like the window-minimization-animation of metacity and because xfm4 has lots of nice themes.
The bumping-effect is present, but afaik only for the screen-edges. |
I'm giving xfce4 a try now. Might use xfwm4 in Gnome, but so far I like xfce4 itself. It's very lightweight, but still has plenty of options. Thanks for the tip!
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Believe it or not, but somehow Sawfish couldn't satisfy my needs either. Maybe it were the window decorations (couldn't find one that I was happy with. And yes, that is important )... |
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