Windowmaker killed GNOME (help!)

[Bill Marcum]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:49:03 +0100, Eamonn Sullivan 
  <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15/10/05, Scott <angrykeyboarder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Actually, my dinkin' around in Windowmaker, probably killed GNOME.
>>
>>  I was toying around in Windowmaker last night and noticed one of the
>> menus was "Window Managers", so I checked it out and noticed that
>> Metacity was there, which I found odd.
>>
>>  So I clicked on it and suddenly my GNOME desktop appears (sans
>> gnome-panel) and I find I can't undo it, so I ctrl+alt+backspace which
>> leaves me at the shell (sometimes it restarts X, I can never figure out
>> it's logic...).
>>
>>  Then I tried "start x" which got me nowhere, so I rebooted.
>>
startx should be written as one word.

>>  When GNOME started I got the splash screen, followed by the desktop
>> background and then the panels started to appear, but they didn't get
>> very far and "retreated". Then they tried again with the same result.
>> They tried several more times and finally gave up, leaving me with a
>> completely blank desktop and no right-click menu.
>>
>>  Any idea how I can fix this other than reinstalling GNOME? I'm sure
>> there is some configuration file somewhere that I could tweak/correct.
>
>
I haven't tried Breezy yet, does the login screen still allow you to 
choose a session?