[techtalk] Gnome and window managers

[Nils Philippsen]

On Sat, 27 May 2000, joey tsai wrote:

> 
> > Kill off those little gnome-* processes one at a time and see what goes
> > away.  This usually isn't fatal.  You can restart them from an xterm and
> > be back where you started.  Killing off gnome-session will log you out,
> > though :-)
> 
> > If you're not happy about killing things, stop them with 'kill -STOP', do
> > a screen refresh and see what doesn't repaint itself.  And then 'kill
> > -CONT' them when you want them back in the land of the living.
> 
> If you should decide and use this method of watching processes to figure
> out what does what, you might as well install gtop.  As you may have
> guessed, it's a gnome version of top.  Plus, right click on a process and
> you can send all the signals you want to it (including STOP/CONT).

An even easier method (to just determine whether something is to be blamed
on WindowMaker or GNOME) is to just change the theme in
Settings->Desktop->Theme Selector. Use a comparably weird one (e.g.
Pixmap) and what changes is GNOME stuff (well, actually it's something
using the Gtk+ widget library, but in this case this will suffice), what
doesn't change is WindowMaker's (WM uses it's own widgets).

Nils
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