Re: gnome - window manager

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) on 11/04/06 14:42, wrote:
> debianista.deb wrote:
> > hey
> >
> >     Can anybody tell me where gnome sets the window manager (metacity) ?
> > please
> >     My gnome runs without metacity how can I fix it ? please
>
> You might use the "gconf-editor" and go into 
> /desktop/gnome/applications/window-manager. Unfortunately, when I've 
> tried changing things under that key, my changes have been ignored.

Have a look in ~/.xinitrc and see if you're overriding it there.

To see whether gconf-editor saved properly, check
~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/%gconf.xml


rgds
Adam