On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:04:24PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:33:55AM -0500, Sean Proctor wrote: > > > I've never used this gnome-wm thing you're talking about. Perhaps > > it's deprecated with GNOME2? > > $ gnome-session --version > Gnome gnome-session 2.0.9 > > gnome-wm comes with gnome-session.
guess I was wrong. > > Anyway, the best way I've found to get a wm running is to do "killall > > old-wm; sleep 1; new-wm &". > > Sure, that works. I don't even have to test it to know that it does. then what's the problem? > > anyway, can you not just start the new wm from a terminal after > > logging in? > > Sure, I can. If I can start a terminal that is :-) you got the panel running? I bet there's one in there someplace. > But you people are missing the problem: I did something (I wish I knew > what exactly) that made gnome-session not start a window manager > anymore and there doesn't seem to be an easy (or intuitive, or both) > way of getting one back. > > Marcelo I don't think I'm missing the point. It's easy to get gnome-session to not start a window manager. I can go into sessions and trash metacity and it's gone, and I get no window manager the next time I log in. so I have to go to a terminal and start metacity. actually, that seemed to not be a permanent solution, so I had to go to sessions and add in metacity as a start up program and then it worked. I could take it out of the start up programs after logging in again. Sean
