Re: Gnome2 wm trials....
Mensaje citado por: Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dman@dman.ddts.net>:
> 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.
>From the gnome-control-center I cannot find anyplace to choose sawfish or any
other window manager, so I'll try gnomecc...
OK, there is an option in gnomecc, But sawfish is not in the list of available
options, so I added it, choose it, and tried it, and now have sawfish running.
But it doesn't stick through a restart.
>
> | 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?
Both sawfish and metacity.
>
> | 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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