This one time, at band camp, David Pastern said: > Which was "pn". I apt-get installed it, logged out...tried selecting the > sawfish session from the main login menu and X just hangs. Killed the X > server and (out of curiosity) tried metacity and that hung as well. I would > have thought it would have been as simple as install window manager, log > out, log back in, go to the relevant system area and tell gnome2 to use that > window manager (or load it first and then tell it...). Am I missing > something or misunderstanding it? I've never ventured to try different > window managers before when i've used gnome (laziness and the attitude "if > it ain't broke, don't fix it"). Now I want to play around. I'm going to > have a read around here, and see what I can dig up, any ideas are > appreciated. GNOME2 doesn't do a very good job (IMHO) with wm selction, and in Debian right now, it defaults to the alternatives system. update-alternatives --config x-window-manager ; select sawfish ; restart X. Not as clean as it could be, but then, does KDE even allow a wm choice? If this fails for you (and it may, although this is the recomended way), you may have to move some of your .gnome2 files/directories aside and let them be rebuilt, especially if you've saved your session. There was just a long thread on =debian-gtk-gnome about this - check the archives if you still have difficulties. HTH, Steve -- Robot, n.: University administrator.
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