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Re: advice on using FVWM with Gnome 2.2 backport on woody



on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:42:20PM -0400, Daniel B. (dsb@smart.net) wrote:
> Does anyone have any advice for using FVWM with Gnome 2.2 (on woody)?
> 
> The initial problem I'm having is that something in Gnome, apparently
> the file manager, is creating a full-screen windows named Desktop;
> when I lower some other window, it disappears because it gets lowered
> to behind the Desktop window.

AFAIK this is the 'gmc' file manager.  Try finding and killing this
process.

I'd also recommend either not running the GNOME desktop with fvwm2, or
running a different, GNOME-aware window manager.

Peace.

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