On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> ive been able to get gnome-2.6 to install having tweaked
> my sources.list file and then using
> using the apt-get gnome-desktop-environment method
>
> however, after loging in at gdm, i have a long wait
> and then although gnome 2.6 has started, the underlying
> window manager has not.
>
> a ctrl-alt-f1 later and im looking through whats running
> with my trust friends ps and top and it appears that
> metacity starts and then disapears.
> i nuked my ~/.gnome* hoping that falling back to defaults
> might help but alas not. i tried removing metacity hoping
> that gnome would fall back on to sawfish but no.
I noticed this as well on ia32. And I couldn't find anymore where to configure
the window manager :-(
The trick I used was:
killall metacity && sawfish
You may have to try this a few times, since Gnome may restart metacity before
swafish is started.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
