On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 10:28, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Dean Hamstead wrote: > > > > 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.
Metacity works fine here, you need to find out why it doesn't for you. > > 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 window manager is session managed now. > 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. Sawfish should provide something like Metacity's --replace. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
