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dreamer3
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 Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 11:07 pm Post subject: Gnome2 window shrink animation disable??? |
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Can anyone tell me how to turn off the "shrinking window" animcation effect when you minize a window in Gnome 2?
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Cloim
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| Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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I can't help, but that would probably be WM specific. I'm using Gnome2 with Sawfish and there are no 'shrinking window' animations.
IIRC metacity, which is the default, has them, and they are built-in. I don't think they can be turned off. |
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dreamer3
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 12:52 am Post subject: |
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| Ahhh, I see. How can I tell Gnome to start using a different Window Manager? |
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Cloim
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 2:05 am Post subject: |
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open a console
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replace 'metacity' with your current WM and 'sawfish' with the one you want.
This doesn't always work right, and I don't recall the 'proper' method. (gnome configuration needs to be streamlined) A forum search should up alternate methods.
Once you have the one you want running, be sure to check 'save current setup' when you logout. |
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dreamer3
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 2:18 am Post subject: |
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| So you can run ANY Window Manager on top of Gnome? I'm confused because I thought that Gnome itself was the Window Manager... is KDE this way too? |
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Cloim
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 3:53 am Post subject: |
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KDE uses kwin (I think) as a window manager. Don't know about changing it.
Don't know if *any* WM will work with gnome.
Still not sure about the advantages of the 'desktop environment' that gnome and KDE are.
The lines seam a bit blurry to me. And to add to my confusion, Enlightenment (another WM I like), is going to become a 'desktop shell', whatever that means.
Layers of programs. The DE takes care of some things and the WM others.
All I can suggest is searching, because I don't have it figured out either  |
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sisob
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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There is more information about Metacity on the gnome user's forum -
you can even find out how to patch metacity to get rid of the animation.
A quick intro: Metacity is going to be the official wm for gnome 2.2 - similar to kwin in kde it will be fully integrated with the system in such a way that the user will not need to know what a wm is.
It i a great piece of software with 2 or 3 major flaws that have been discuseed at great lenght on the GUB.
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