I need some help with the sawfish (a.k.a. sawmill) window manager and GNOME

B. Koeller bkoeller at u.washington.edu
Wed Aug 8 21:03:13 PDT 2001


Wasn't the window manager now known as sawfish formerly known as sawmill?
I thought they had to change their name because some other company owned
it. Thanks.

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Brandon Koeller
http://koellers.org
brandon at koellers.org

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, 'Robin' R. Battey wrote:

|One thing to note:
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|"sawfish" is not the same as "sawmill".
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|Cheers,
|-robin
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|On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Jeff Silverman wrote:
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|> I have found three different ways to active the GNOME Control Center.  I
|> want to change the focus behavior of the sawfish window manager.  I have
|> tried this on both RH 6.1 and RH 7.1 machines, and in all cases,
|> although ps -ax says that sawfish is running, and although the control
|> panel setting for current window manager is sawmill, when I attempt to
|> change the configuration I get an error message that [Sawmill isn't
|> running].
|>
|> Does anybody have any advice/comments/guidance?
|>
|>
|> Many thanks,
|>
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|> Jeff
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