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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers So many types of LINUX's! Post 37443 by norsk hedensk on Wednesday 18th of June 2003 10:06:49 PM

06-18-2003

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well, they all do package managment differently ( one way or another .... ) and some adminitration commands are different. if you are using your linux box for a server, then there wont be too much difference. however if this is your desktop machine, its my opinion that a "newbie" will notice a difference. they all have their own way of laying out the desktop, be it KDE or GNOME ( other window managers , ie window maker come pretty much default, in my experience ) . again, IMO SuSE has the nicest KDE desktop around, when you get to customizing it your self, you can make it look however you want, but the initial design is the best around. if you are looking for reccomendations i would defenitly suggest SuSE 8.2 with KDE !!! if you want a non-rpm based system, i would suggest gentoo, i havnt used it first hand, but a few of my friends say its great. even though it is not regarded as a 'newbie' distro, as you do EVERYTHING your self, everything up to compiling your own kernel for first boot, the online documentation and step by step instructions are very very good.

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metacity-message

metacity-message(1)						   User Commands					       metacity-message(1)

NAME

       metacity-message - send messages to the desktop window manager

SYNOPSIS

       metacity-message [disable-keybindings] [enable-keybindings] [reload-theme] [restart] [toggle-verbose]

DESCRIPTION

       You  can  use  the  metacity-message application to communicate with the desktop window manager to perform the following tasks: restart the
       window manager, reload the current window border theme, enable and disable keybindings, and enable debugging messages.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       disable-keybindiDisable keybindings for the desktop window manger.

       enable-keybindinEnable keybindings for the desktop window manger.

       reload-theme    Reload the current window border theme.

       restart	       Restart the desktop window manager.

       toggle-verbose  Enable debugging messages for the desktop window manager.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Restarting the Window Manager

       example% metacity-message restart

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/metacity-messagExecutable to communicate with the desktop window manager

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-wm		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       metacity(1), metacity-properties(1), metacity-theme-viewer(1), metacity-window-demo(1)

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    6 Sep 2004						       metacity-message(1)