Two related questions about Gnome

[Steve Scrimpshire]

I'm using MDK 9.1 and Gnome. I don't see anything in Gnome Configuration about Sawfish or Sawfish preferences at all. As a matter of fact, doing:

 

locate sawfish

 

gives me nothing at all. Now to my question. Some of the little icons on the minimized windows are not to my liking. For example, Rxvt and Xterm's icons are just little blank pieces of paper (like the editor icons) and not console icons. How can I change that?

 

Second question is: In IceWM there is the ablility to make a minimized window icon 'exclusive', which means it is moved over to the far right of the taskbar and only shows the icon with no text. Is this possible in Gnome somehow?

[bvc]

Uummm....3 questions?

 

1. gnome2 uses metacity. You can install (on cd's) and use sawfish if you'd rather by doing (don't recall the exact way but either should work);

killall metacity ; sleep 2 ; sawfish

or

killall metacity; sawfish &

 

2. I would imagine that it means there's no icon that small for those apps. Wouldn't know how to fix that. Well it's obvious, but a major pain.

 

3. Don't think there's a way to do that in gnome2. Keep in mind that gnome is no longer old, but a new baby DE. Everything is being re-worked and the overall DE is expected to be a lttle more mature by 2.4, but won't be as 'together' in some respect as 1.4 til about 2.6 (depend on you own individual opinion of 'together')

 

 

Also, check out gconf-editor for further tweaking of gnome (hidden options).

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Ok, so 3 questions....lol. Thanks for the response. I've decided that I feel more comfortable in IceWM for now. Maybe back to Gnome some time later.