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Re: trouble with gnome and x-window-manager



I am not sure to understand your question.
Is it not clear to me what do you want to run. You tell us that you use
update-alternatives, that's a good thing but what do you choose for your
x-window-manager ? Is it correct to assume that you want to run gnome
with another window manager ?

If you want to run gnome with another wm and do you want to use the
alternative system to set it, I know one problem : there is a gconf
field (try with gconf-editor) where you can specify your gnome windoww
manager. 

.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager

If this field is set (to sawfish for example) then the
alternative system is ignored.

Christophe


On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Antonio Nikolic wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I've set up debian sid and after having installed gnome/sawfish,
> changing the x-window-manager with "update-alternatives..." does not
> take effect. The x-window-manager in fact is changed as it is shown by
> "update-alternatives", but running startx, results in starting gnome
> and sawfish! Before I had gnome installed on the machine, I tried out
> some other windowmanagers and in this time changing x-window-manager
> was no problem....
> I already tried "dpkg-reconfigure xbase-clients", with no success
> either.
> any idea?
> 
> thx in andvance
> 
> greets,
> tony
> tony.n@web.de
> 
> 
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