02-28-2002
Never mind!
Figured it out tonight and got Sawfish up and running. GNome does much better with Sawfish than twm!
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
sawfish
sawfish(1) General Commands Manual sawfish(1)
NAME
sawfish -- Sawfish window manager.
SYNOPSIS
sawfish [--display [=DPY] ] [--multihead ] [--visual [=VISUAL] ] [--depth [=DEPTH] ] [--disable-nls ] [FILE ] [--batch ] [--interp ]
[-f, --call FUNCTION ] [-l, --load FILE ] [--version ] [--no-rc ] [-q, --quit ]
DESCRIPTION
Sawfish is a lisp-extensible window manager for X11. Its aim is to allow all areas of window management (decoration, manipulation) to be
customized as far as is possible, yet still remain as fast or faster than existing window managers.
OPTIONS
--display=DPY
Connect to X display DPY.
--multihead
Fork a copy of sawfish for each screen.
--visual=VISUAL
Preferred VISUAL type.
--depth=DEPTH
Preferred color DEPTH.
--disable-nls
Disable internationalization of messages.
FILE
Load the Lisp file FILE (from the cwd if possible, implies --batch mode).
--batch
Batch mode: process options and exit.
--interp
Interpreted mode: don't load compiled Lisp files.
-f, --call FUNCTION
Call Lisp function FUNCTION.
-l, --load FILE
Load the file of Lisp forms called FUNCTION.
--version Print version details.
--no-rc Don't load rc or site-init files.
-q, --quit-
Terminate the interpreter process.
SEE ALSO
Sawfish is documented fully by John Harper available via the Info system.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christian Marillat marillat@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
sawfish(1)