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Re: Gnome2 wm trials....



On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 01:55:38PM -0600, ciber@celasmaya.edu.gt wrote:
| I am testing Gnome2 on one of our debian/sid machines here and have run into a
| few glitches.
| 
| 1] sawfish or metacity don't start by default, just twm.
| 2] gnome-panel tries to start, then exits, I presume because of twm?
| 3] click to focus doesn't work, or works wierdly
| 4] alt-tab doesn't do anything..
| 
| 1] sawfish or metacity don't start by default, just twm.

Yeah, odd.  Start a term from ~/.xsession or ~/.gnomerc.  In that term
run 'gnome-control-center' (or gnomecc).  Then (re)select sawfish.  It
should start then, and next time as well.

| 2] gnome-panel tries to start, then exits, I presume because of twm?

Try running 'strace gnome-session 2>/tmp/gnome-strace-log' from
~/.xsession.  I don't know why your panel dies.

| 3] click to focus doesn't work, or works wierdly

This is a window manager issue, not a gnome one.  Which WM has this
problem?

| 4] alt-tab doesn't do anything..

Ditto.  Check the key bindings in your WM.


Personally I can not use gnome2.  None of the gnome2 apps will
actually run (I've tried gnome-terminal and yelp).  They hang in a
call to poll().  Presumably it is some corba related problem.  The
gnome2 control center is absolutely useless -- it has nothing in it to
configure.  (I mean absolutely nothing, not "nothing useful")  It also
looks like the panel is still version 1.4 in sid.

However, sawfish 1.1 works very well with gnome 1.4 (except for the
lack of wrap-around when cycling through workspaces).

HTH,
-D

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