>  I decided to try out GarGnome, to see what gnome2 looks like. It's
>  However, there seemed to be loads of bugs - sawfish threw wobblers all
> over the place, so I tryed out metacity - which doesn't have a GUI
> configurator, and arsed if I'm going back to the fvwm days when you had to
> set settings by hand, without an idea what the values looked like.
Have you tried gconf-editor? It's a GUI front-end to gconf
settings (and metacity has it's settings handled by gconf, like
all good gnome2 apps). It's true there's no designated metacity
configurator - but the whole point of metacity is to have
reasonable defaults, and thus get away from the need for settings
altogether, and have the window manager be not in the way (as so
As to the sawfish issue, no idea, sorry - are you sure that
gnome2's panel handles 1.4 applets at all?

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http://www.revolution-os.com/  (trailer + first 8 mins online)
I wonder if this will ever get to Ireland? Otherwise, I wonder if it would
be possible to get the Trinity Internet Society or somewhere to show it?

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