sawfish-1.3

Introduction to sawfish

The sawfish package contains a window manager. This is useful for organizing and displaying windows where all window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the extension language.

Installation of sawfish

Install sawfish by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexec=/usr/sbin --infodir=/usr/share/info \
  --with-gnome-prefix=/opt/gnome-2.2 &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--with-audiofile: This command directs sawfish to use libaudiofile for sound manipulation.

--with-esd: This command directs sawfish to use the Enlightened Sound Daemon.

--with-gnome-prefix=/opt/gnome-2.2: This command directs sawfish to GNOME's directory.

Configuring sawfish

cat >> ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
exec sawfish
EOF

Contents

The sawfish package contains sawfish.

Description