On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:59:31PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Cam on 20/07/05 15:17, wrote: > >try openbox. You can switch w/ openbox --replace. It's fully > >GNOME-compliant so it should be a pretty seamless switch (it was for > >me). > > That's pretty good, but it isn't installing itself as the default window > manager, and x-windows is still taking 5 times as long to start up. > > What part of the config should I be looking at here?
Similar problem here, with complication. I've just upgraded my woody to a sarge, and can't get X to do anything useful. I use gdm, and I have no idea what window manager gdm imposes on me. I do know that the window manager uses the wrong screen resolution, so it's useless. It's as if the pixels are written into a C-style two-dimensional array with one height and width, and then displayed by reading them from a C-tyle array at the same location, but a different height and witdh. I can see windows and things, but they've all been skewed into unusablility. gdm itself has a perfect login screen, so *something* in the system knows how to do things right. I've also installed icewm (my favourite window manager) in the hope that a *new* window manager might he able to get its defaults right, but gdm refuses to add it to the list. I've tried dpkg-reconfigure on both gdm and icewm, to no effect. I seem to remember that this worked just fine on my other sarge system to get gdm to recognise a new window manager... Any ideas? --hendrik > > > Thanks > > Adam > > -- > Linux 2.6.11 Debian > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
