using xfwm in gnome?

[Todd Slater]

On 5/17/06, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 05:57:59PM +0200, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
> > Matt Price writes:
> >
> > > Hi Folks,
> > > I have recently upgraded my computer to a sizzling new amd64-dual core and
> > > it's FAST.  I like the new gnome desktop very much but the window manager is
> > > driving me crazy and I really miss my old xfwm bindings and so forth.  Is it
> > > possible to change the window manager in gnome to xfwm?  I can't locate a
> > > setting anywhere that says "window manager".  Any hints?
> >
> > Yes it is possible. I used xfwm4 some weeks, but an update broke the
> > window list functionality, so now I'm using sawfish again.
> >
> > I followed the instructions on
> >
> > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-88393.html
> >
> > to replace metacity with xfwm4.
>
> ah.  unfortunately the forums seem to be down.  But I tried variations on:
>
> killall metacity & xfwm4
>
> but they never seem to work.  ah well, I can wait till the forums are back up
> I suppose.

I think that's because gnome automatically restarts metacity if it
gets killed. You have to go in to the sessions management
(system-preferences-sessions), go to current session, click metacity
and change if from restart to normal or something.

HTH,
Todd