Re: Sawfish wm won't start from gdm3

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:02:39 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:

> I recently (finally) upgraded from lenny to squeeze. All seems well
> except if I choose the sawfish window manager from the gdm3 greeter, the
> dialog goes away and it just sits with the debian logo and the stars
> background. I can't find any error messages anywhere
> (~/.xsession-errors).
> 
> If I start up gnome with the default wm, metacity, I can kill metacity
> and run sawfish from an xterm:
> 
> killall metacity; sawfish &
> 
> Any ideas why it won't start from the gdm3 greeter?

Mmm... just an idea but if metacity is the one making noise here, how 
telling your current GNOME session to do not start metacity, then 
stopping it, launch sawfish and then saving the current session?

Anyway, I wonder how this used to work in Lenny with no additional 
tweaks :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón