Re: Making an app sticky/Show on All Workspaces

The problem is not Gnome-2 per se but with Metacity. Since Sun has
abandoned Sawfish in favor of Metacity as *THE* default window manager
it seems that everyone is following.

As far as I can tell, the reason for the switch is that to reach a
corporate and/or international desktop market you need support for
people with disabilities and those who don't speak English. According to
Sun Sawfish's code was too much of a mess to fix easily and quickly,
therefore a switch to Metacity. IMHO, a fine window manager with a
bright future, but currently lacking in maturity and features.

If you want to use edge flipping, this leaves you two choices; you can
switch to using KDE or go back to using Sawfish. Since this is a Ximian
mailing list I assume that you will want to stick to Gnome-2.

If you use English exclusively and don't have a disability that would
require the special features that Sawfish doesn't have you can stick
with Sawfish. Unfortunately there is no longer an easy to use caplet to
switch desktop window managers with Gnome-2. I understand that they are
working on one, but until then you can make the switch yourself.

How to switch from Metacity to Sawfish with Gnome-2:

Go to the "GConf editor" AKA "Configuration Editor" and under / >
desktop > applications > window_manager edit the 'current' and/or
'default' key from /usr/bin/metacity to /usr/bin/metacity You may need
to right click on the key and select "Edit key..." to get an editing
pop-up window.

Then open a terminal window and enter the following command: "killall
metacity && sawfish &" without the quotes, of course. Then you should be
running Sawfish. When you log out be sure save your current setting.

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Now you can have your Gnome-2 and keep your edge flipping. I use it all
the time myself and was very frustrated by Metacity's lack of support
for edge flipping. Hopefully once Metacity matures a bit they will
include this handy feature.

Good Flipping,
Kurt


On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 06:03, Daryl Manning wrote:
> OK, probably going to feel silly for asking these, but 
> 
> 1) I can't figure out how to make gkrellm sticky on the gnome2 workspace
> desktop like I could with sawfish in Gnome 1.4.
> 
> 2) Before I upgraded I had one workspace split into 5 "columns" so I
> could slide things between them. Now with g2 (which I love by the
> way...), I do not have the columns option, so I have moved to 5
> workspaces. However, I am not able to "slide" apps between one virtual
> desktop and into the other one as I could with columns and I can't find
> a workspace flipping option.
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated and sorry for the niggly questions...
> 
> ciao!
> Daryl.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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