Re: Lost window manager?
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:00:50PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:40:51AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > That said, the update-alternatives still seem to be the correct way
> > of changing the wm.
>
> System wide, yes. But the key in the gconf database is a per-user
> setting.
>
> > Sure, but gnome-wm is a gnome thingy which know nothing about how
> > debian works.
>
> Well, that's the problem. After sending my previous mail I looked at
> the gnome-wm script (yes, it's a script, I should have looked at it
> sooner). It basically does this:
>
> if there's a WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable, it uses that.
>
> if not, it uses the x-window-manager alternative
>
> if that's foobared, then fall back to a number of funny choices
Yes, there was some discution about this some time back.
> And _then_ write the result to the key I mentioned earlier. That means
> you can change the key using gconf or whatever, and it will get
> friendly overwritten by gnome-wm.
>
> > > That still doesn't help me with the other problem: gnome-session not
> > > starting a window manager at all. I though gnome-session just ran
> > > gnome-wm, but somehow I managed to convice it not to do that.
>
> > Did you try the update-alternatives thingy ?
>
> No because I (now) know that that will change the window manager
> gnome-wm picks, but my problem is that no window manager is starting at
> all, not that I want to switch from one to the other.
>
> The fact that I can't change the window manager is secondary. I'd like
> to know what I did that made gnome-session stop launching a window
> manager in the first place.
Maybe the gnome-wm you run gave an empty result (for whatever reason)
and thus overwrote the gconf key with it, or with a failing wm or
something such.
Have you tried tracing the calls (or looking at .gnome-errors, if that
still work, to see if there was something getting called and failing, or
just plain nothing getting called ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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