4.6: new windows now start on bottom

[Chris G]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:39:18PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-07-13, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Can anybody could recommend other window managers that work
> > well with XFCE desktop and panel?
> 
> I've been trying out openbox, and it works quite nicely so far.
> Despite the claims for being ultra-lightweight, its footprint
> (on my system) is probably a bit larger than xfwm4:
> 
>       PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>     
>     
>     17643 grante    20   0  9028 5384 3964 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.50 openbox
>     17644 grante    20   0  8680 5072 3936 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.04 openbox
>     
>     17784 grante    20   0 15240 8312 6992 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.16 xfwm4
>     
> Since I have two displays, I have to run two instances of
> openbox.  Since only one instanc of xfwm4 is required, it ends
> up using a couple MB less total memory.  I think.  It sort of
> depends on how much of the openbox shared space is actually
> shared with other non-openbox applications, and how much of the
> resident space is in fact shared with other apps (since what
> one cares more about resident size).
> 
How does running openbox (or fvwm if it was me) with xfce differ from
running it with gnome?  ... and more to the point how do I set things
up to do one or the other?  If I just install (say) fvwm using apt-get
then I'll get a choice at login time of xfce *or* fvwm and if I select
fvwm I basically get a gnome system with fvwm as the window manager.

Is there a way to get an 'xfce' system with fvwm as window manager?
That would actually work well for me as then I can still (presumably)
use all the ready made xubuntu set-up/configuration tools but I can
arrange my desktops/windows using fvwm.

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Chris Green