Customizing Sawfish Window Manager Options

Most aspects of the window manager behavior cannot be controlled from the Gnome Control Center. Instead, you have to use the Sawfish Configurator to change these. To start the Sawfish Configurator, middle-click a blank area on the desktop, select "Customize", and then select "All Features" (see Figure 6.23).

Figure 6.23. The Sawfish Configurator.

To make the desktop environment easier to work with, make the following changes.

Choose "Focus" and check "Focus windows when they are first displayed". This will cause new windows to automatically be made active when they open. Make sure that "Dialog windows ...

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