First, thanks to Johnny and Stephan. > You can start Gnome in two ways in your .xsession: > > start the panel > start a windowmanager > > This will work, but will not be session managed. > > The smarter way is: > > gnome-session > > Gnome-session (and do NOT start a window manager manually before or after) > > Gnome-session will automatically start the window manager noted in the > environment variable WINDOW_MANAGER (note the underscore) > And this way you will recieve session management. > > I suspect that the sluggishness of your setup comes from 2 sawfish > biting at eachother. > - The one you started manually > - The one gnome-session starts > > They probably don't like eachother.
I don't have gnome-session installed at all. I was just running panel from an rxvt window. I'll install gnome-session and see if it helps. If it does, I tend to think it is a bug that running panel from an rxvt causes such sluggishness; it really is unusable. If it doesn't help, well something else is wrong :-) Neil.
