Alternative Window Manager
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Here it’s a tip on how to speed up your system a bit and get ride of metacity, without loosing all the benefits of the gnome-platform.
- Install a window manager, in my case Openbox, sudo aptitude install openbox obconf
- Open your Configuration Editor, go to Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor
- Go to / -> desktop -> gnome -> applications -> window_manager
- Change Default value, for example to /usr/bin/openbox
- Now restart (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace)
You could have also changed the gconf key at ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/%gconf.xml
UPDATE: Version of openbox in ubuntu 7.04 is too old and slow, grab last version from here
