>>>>> "ciber" == ciber <ciber@celasmaya.edu.gt> writes: [...] ciber> reversed the above hack. And found ciber> /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager and made it a link to metacity ciber> rather then twm. Which wiçorked, metacity starts, but the ciber> gnome-panel still doesn't. Is gnome-session2 installed? To start gnome, you should be running gnome-session instead of metacity. (When you install gnome-session2, you won't have to fiddle with /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager. gnome-session2 uses /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager which takes priority over x-window-manager.) When you start gnome-session, Gnome will pick the window manager. I think that by default it uses sawfish (if it's installed). To switch, just do "killall sawfish && sleep 1 && metacity &" from a terminal. The next time you start Gnome, metacity will be started. Hmm. gnome-session2 seems to only be available in the experimental archive, which means essentially that Gnome 2 is not fully in sid yet. You'll either have to wait a little while, or if you're really brave, add the experimental archive to your apt sources. deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main Beware that you had better know what you're doing, or you can seriously mess up your box. You'll have to read the apt_preferences man page and/or the apt man page to get the experimental packages to update properly (by default, apt won't update an already-installed package to the version from experimental). -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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