Re: gnome2 and window managers
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 15:28, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Last night, after rebuilding Branden's XFree86 4.2.0 test packages
> with some additional r128 patches, I noticed that the reinstallation
> of the XFree86 packages caused the window manager to be reset to twm.
> Having gdm2 installed, what I noticed was that when I logged in,
> the Gnome 2 splash screen would show that the sawfish window manager
> was loading. However when X started to open up windows for the gnome
> session each item was in its own twm window (the panel dock, the
> nautilus2 desktop, the menu bar, etc). I was able to fix this by
> changing the symlink for /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager from twm
> to sawfish.
Ouch, man update-alternatives.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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