Features of the sawfish Window Manager

The sawfish window manager, formerly known as sawmill, is the default GNOME-aware window manager used by Red Hat Linux for X11 sessions. This is one of the newest window managers available for X11, and has been specifically configured to work well with the GNOME libraries.

The system-wide sawfish configuration files are stored under the /usr/share/sawfish directory, but you'll find a sawfish directory installed in your home directory the first time you use this window manager. This directory is used to store the custom settings, the past session, and window-management and decoration settings.

To launch sawfish's configuration tool, use the sawfish-ui client (shown in Figure 5.9). Another way is through the ...

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