On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:20 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote: > Yup. Rebooted. Logged in. No metacity.
I don't remember if anyone asked this before -- what happens if you run metacity from a terminal in X when you don't have a window manager? You *may* need to find the metacity binary and specify the full path, but I doubt it: If you get something like "command not found", then you need to find the binary. ('locate metacity | grep bin' should help to find it). --Rogan > > This is Fedora 11 with Gnome 2.26.3. > > Since the last time I rebooted and logged in (a couple hours ago) I tried to > get Rhythmbox to see the playlist file from Rhythmbox on my desktop computer > (unsuccessfully), installed Banshee, uninstalled Virtualbox from Sun, > installed > Virtualbox OSE. Virtualbox OSE would not start any guests until I rebooted. So > I rebooted, and then I landed without a window manager. > > This is the fifth time this has happened. > > (1) and (2) were Debian Testing, (3) was Fedora 12, (4) was OpenSuse 11.2. > > But Virtualbox OSE does start my guests. One problem solved, bigger problem > created. > > As soon as I send this I'm going to uninstall Virtualbox OSE and reboot. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug