Thus spake Jeffrey W. Baker: > > Ah, I just added a new user to my machine and when that user first started > GNOME, the window manager was (drum roll please) ... twm? Yes indeed, our > old friend twm. So I went to the GNOME control panel, and twm was the > only choice for window manager. I had to manually add sawfish to the > list, restart GNOME, manually jerk around with the session management of > sawfish, and restart GNOME again. > > Obviously, I would like this to go a little more smoothly next time I add > another user :) So, there are several issues: > > 1) Why isn't sawfish listed by default in the GNOME window managers > control panel? > > 2) Why is twm started by default? Is there are ordering issue when > installing WMs? Must I install sawfish first or last? > > 3) Why isn't the session management automatically setup correctly for the > WM? My new user became quite confused when GNOME started up sans WM with > the Nautilus background window above everything else. > > BTW This is unstable distribution on powerpc. Another weird thing is > GNOME on PPC has a different (older) startup splash screen than GNOME on > x86. > > -jwb You can try update-alternatives --config x-window-manager man update-alternatives for details. Good luck, Steve -- Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. -- Robert Benchley
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