Re: Gnome 23 installs OK but gives WM problems - SOLVED
An aptitude purge of the three libgtkxxx packages followed by an "aptitude
install gnome" took care of the problem. I had only been removing the packages
instead of purging them.
* Victor Torrico (vtorrico@cfw.com) wrote:
> Gnome SID installation with metacity or sawfish WM:
>
> "aptitude install gnome" worked great with no errors. Using startx to "exec
> gnome-session". When splashscreen comes up it hangs for a while showing
> "Window Manager" where it should indicating "metacity" and then continues and
> disappears and brings up what is a really weird control panel. The panel is
> a super long bar extending very far beyond the right hand edge of the screen.
> It has the Gnome footprint at the far left but does not have the Applications
> or Actions headings. If I select the footprint the long bar simply drops down
> and becomes about 4 or 5 times deeper in depth and may or may not have icons on
> the left side. Sawfish behaves the same way. Super weird.
>
> Have set update-alternatives for x-window-manager to metacity and modified the
> window manager to metacity using gconf-editor but with no luck. Any ideas?
>
> If I startx with "gnome-panel &" and "exec icewm" everything is normal and the
> control panel works fine.
>
> Victor
>
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