Re: GNOME2 config
> I've been running woody up on laptop for a while now
> and have been regularly running apt-get
> update/upgrade. After updating last night I decided to
> have a go at installing GNOME2 and Mozilla 1.2.1 from
> their respective sites on people.debian.org. It all
> looked to running nicely, I rebooted after installing
> everything and was impressed with what I'd got. But,
> when I turned the machine on today I can't move any of
> the windows around, they just sit one atop the other -
> I have to close one window to see the one beneath and
> I can't type into the address bar anything like the
> search boxes on web pages - access through an M$ box
> continues to allow me full access to the outside
> world! I ran update-alternatives --config
> x-windows-manager to try to switch from sawfish as I
> have at present to metacity (I only seem to be able to
> do this as root...). On rebooting the system sawfish
> is still running... solutions to these simple little
> problems would be most helpful. Thanks in advance!
try 'Actions' -> 'Run Program...' ->
"killall sawfish && metacity"
then log out, saving your session
greetz,
Joris
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