Re: Lost window manager?

[Sean Proctor <sproctor@ccs.neu.edu>]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:04:24PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:33:55AM -0500, Sean Proctor wrote:
> 
>  > I've never used this gnome-wm thing you're talking about.  Perhaps
>  > it's deprecated with GNOME2?
> 
>  $ gnome-session --version
>  Gnome gnome-session 2.0.9
> 
>  gnome-wm comes with gnome-session.

guess I was wrong.

>  > Anyway, the best way I've found to get a wm running is to do "killall
>  > old-wm; sleep 1; new-wm &".
> 
>  Sure, that works.  I don't even have to test it to know that it does.

then what's the problem?

>  > anyway, can you not just start the new wm from a terminal after
>  > logging in?
> 
>  Sure, I can.  If I can start a terminal that is :-)

you got the panel running?  I bet there's one in there someplace.

>  But you people are missing the problem: I did something (I wish I knew
>  what exactly) that made gnome-session not start a window manager
>  anymore and there doesn't seem to be an easy (or intuitive, or both)
>  way of getting one back.
> 
>  Marcelo

I don't think I'm missing the point.  It's easy to get gnome-session to not
start a window manager.  I can go into sessions and trash metacity and it's
gone, and I get no window manager the next time I log in.  so I have to go to
a terminal and start metacity.  actually, that seemed to not be a permanent
solution, so I had to go to sessions and add in metacity as a start up
program and then it worked.  I could take it out of the start up programs
after logging in again.

Sean