Gnome 2.10 and sawfish -- comments and a question

[Richard Kuhns]

Hello,

I've hit the point where I can't handle metacity any more, and decided 
to switch back to sawfish. I've managed to do so, but it's not a very 
clean way to do it so I'm going to describe what I've ended up doing and 
ask for suggestions.

I'm running gdm started via /etc/ttys under FreeBSD 6.0-RC1.

I looked at the FreeBSD Gnome FAQ entry on changing window managers, and 
it's missing a step. Before doing the 'killall metacity', I needed to go 
to Desktop -> Preferences -> Sessions and change the state of metacity 
from Restart to Normal. After making that change, I killed metacity, 
started sawfish and saved the session; so far so good. However, from 
that point on, gnome went from taking approx 15 seconds to start up to 
more than 2 minutes. The splash screen froze on 'Session Manager Proxy' 
for more than a minute. I later got an error popup telling me that there 
was already a panel running (no indication as to which program was 
complaining). After closing the popup and waiting a little longer, 
everything looked ok. This wasn't a one-time occurence; I even rebooted 
once just in case something was left runnning that shouldn't be.

Here's what I'm currently doing: First, I removed ~/.gnome2/session. 
Then I went into the configuration editor and changed the default window 
manager from metacity to sawfish. Finally, I renamed 
/usr/X11R6/bin/metacity to /usr/X11R6/bin/metacity-dontrun. Now sawfish 
is my window manager, and gnome takes no more than 15 seconds to start.

Any comments would be appreciated.
	- Rich
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