Re: [Sawfish] Suggestions for Gnome Replacement

[John Lumby <johnlumby@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Correction  -  the content of /etc/sysconfig/desktop should be (one line )
DESKTOP=SAWFISH
(also corrected below)


On 08/05/11 15:17, John Lumby wrote:
> I am happpily running sawfish on Fedora 15 on one of my machines,  and 
> my replacement for Gnome is nothing.
> In other words,  I run sawfish *as* the desktop manager  (instead of 
> gnome-session).    I find I really don't miss the Gnome Gnunk all that 
> much.
> Everything else works fine   (of course you still need the various 
> gnome rpms installed for things such as application choosers etc)
> Maybe you know that this is an option,  but if not,  here's how:
>
> edit /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients and add some script like :
>
>     if [ "$DESKTOP" = SAWFISH ]; then {
> ###   may need to        export PATH="??????";
>         PREFERRED=`which sawfish`;
>     };
>     elif [ "$DESKTOP" = "GNOME" ]; then ...
>
> then edit or create /etc/sysconfig/desktop and insert one line
> DESKTOP=SAWFISH
>
> Cheers,    John Lumby
>
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> Sawfish ML


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