Re: Troubles with gnome 2.6
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 10:28, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> >
> > however, after loging in at gdm, i have a long wait
> > and then although gnome 2.6 has started, the underlying
> > window manager has not.
> >
> > a ctrl-alt-f1 later and im looking through whats running
> > with my trust friends ps and top and it appears that
> > metacity starts and then disapears.
Metacity works fine here, you need to find out why it doesn't for you.
> > i nuked my ~/.gnome* hoping that falling back to defaults
> > might help but alas not. i tried removing metacity hoping
> > that gnome would fall back on to sawfish but no.
>
> I noticed this as well on ia32. And I couldn't find anymore where to configure
> the window manager :-(
The window manager is session managed now.
> The trick I used was:
>
> killall metacity && sawfish
>
> You may have to try this a few times, since Gnome may restart metacity before
> swafish is started.
Sawfish should provide something like Metacity's --replace.
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