Re: Problems upgrading to Gnome2

[Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net>]

Michael Schulze wrote:

> i had the same problem this weekend when installing woody and gnome 2. the
> 'strange borders' are the twm window manager. try to launch sawfish or
> metacity as window manager instead.

More specifically, open an xterm, su to root, and enter the following
command:

    update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

then choose a default window manager from the list it shows you. If
there are no civilized wm's installed, apt-get one. metacity is pretty
decent.

Craig