On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:44:37 -0700 > From: John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> > To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Dragging is good > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:22:36 -0700 > John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> dijo: > >> Right now I am thrilled to report that Gnome-do did the job. I am >> happily writing this in Gnome with my panel and everything apparently >> working as before the upgrade to Jaunty. > > Ack! The boy spoke too soon. :( > > After I launched my mail client (Sylpheed) I quickly discovered that it > popped up on top of the panel, which nothing used to be able to do. > Worse, I can't drag it around with the mouse. And there are no little - > and x buttons in the window. > > This is the window manager, right? Whatever it is, it's not working. > > Off to google on Gnome window manager to see if I can figure out what > it's called.
You definitely need a window manager in order to get borders, title bars, X buttons, panels, etc. Does your gdm login screen give you the option of picking a window manager? I always suggest keeping a lightweight WM around for emergencies. Try fluxbox, or even xfce4. You can use it while trying to fix gnome. Every X-enabled box should have twm, though it's rugged. I don't think it will be called twm in your gdm login screen interface. Maybe it will be called "default". Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug