[vox-tech] what Windowmaker has that Gnome does not

Ken Bloom kabloom at ucdavis.edu
Fri Jul 9 11:02:20 PDT 2004


On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:11:10AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:41:44AM -0700, Issac Trotts wrote:
> > In Windowmaker, it's possible to define a keyboard shortcut that
> > maximizes the current window vertically.  When that key
> > combination is pressed a second time, the window is unmaximized.
> > In Gnome, the second time does nothing.  If someone here has an
> > idea about this, I'd like to know about it.  Thanks!
> 
> Seeing as Gnome's not a window manager, I guess I need to ask which
> window manager you're using. ;^)  (Probably the general question is:
> what does Gnome default to / prefer these days?  Metacity?)
> 
> When I used Gnome last, I used it with Sawfish/Sawmill.  It seemed
> to handle keyboard shortcuts for max/unmax pretty well.  I think the
> command I was binding had the word "Toggle" in it, though. :^)
> Maybe there's something similar in Metacity (or whatever you're
> using) that you can look for...?

How does one change the windowmanager in gnome?
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