On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:14:40 +0100 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, I wanted to add a user to the system. When I logged her in, > Applications --> Desktop Preferences --> Theme didn't show a "window > border" tab, as it does with my login. That felt odd. Changes made > with metacity-setup didn't change anything, which made more sense when > Openbox appeared to be the window manager of the new user. > > Using gconf-editor, I found that the default WM indeed was set to > /usr/bin/openbox. I changed it to /usr/bin/metacity, logged out and > back in, but nothing had changed. As root, I did "update-alternatives > --config x-window-manager", and chose Metacity, but once again, that > didn't solve the problem. > > What's wrong? Is this a bug? Or what am I overlooking? Is there a way > have the default (Metacity) back?
Probably you changed the default, but openbox is still in that user's gnome-session and thus overrides it. Window-manager handling in GNOME is really pretty fugly, mainly because the various WM's interact with gnome-session in different ways. This one, however, *should* be pretty easy. Log in as that user and do: metacity --replace That should replace openbox with metacity in the session. Make sure you save changes to the session when you log out, if that isn't done automatically. I think that should work but if it doesn't, you should be able to kill the openbox process and start up a metacity process from an xterm. It's just that the momentary loss of a WM can make input difficult if you don't do it correctly. And FWIW, Openbox 3 blows Metacity out of the water as a GNOME WM. You may want to check it out. IMHO, of course... -- Todd Pytel ---------------------------------------- Signature attached PGP Key ID 77B1C00C
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