David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christian Marillat writes:
[...] > > This is already the case. See /usr/bin/gnome-wm > That, in fact, turns out to be the problem. No amount of messing with > gconf keys or setting of environment variables fixed the delay for me > (although it was closer to 10 seconds than 30). Simply renaming > /usr/bin/gnome-wm > to > /usr/bin/gnome-wm.SAFE > did the trick; now metacity starts instantly, without the delay. On a > quick inspection, I cannot see what in the shell script was causing > the problem. You have nothing in ~/.gnome-errors ? Can you do some more tests ? In /usr/share/gnome/default.session try to replace this line : 1,RestartCommand=gnome-wm --default-wm gnome-wm --sm-client-id default1 by 1,RestartCommand=gnome-wm --default-wm x-window-manager --sm-client-id default1 Christian

