Adam Hardy on 11/07/05 22:07, wrote:
I installed sarge a few months ago and use the default GUI alot - gnome
- but now I've got a problem ever since I 'repaired' my system after the
menu went apesh1t.
I had this menu issue which wouldn't go away even between reboots, and I
noticed this process 'metacity' running. Along with a couple of other
things, I removed the metacity package.
This got me my menu back and completely changed the look of gnome.
Since I actually prefer it how it is now, I would like to keep it as it
is, except I get the following error message when I try to do certain
things:
"your window manager does not support the show desktop button, or you
are not running a window manager".
or
"cannot start the preferences application for your window manager - KWin
has not registered a configuration tool"
I've got gnome - I thought that was a window manager. So what is
metacity? I want to change a couple of things about my desktop
So if metacity is the window manager, then I am running without one.
I tried installing sawfish just now (thanks Leonid) but this doesn't get
me anywhere. The same errors appear. Something is obviously wrong with
the config. The splash screen sits for 30 secs on the 'window manager'
stage too.
How can I fix this?
Thanks
Adam
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