Edgy (Gnome 16.0) Window Manager Problem

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On 9/10/06, ruscook <ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>  I'm not sure what I've done to cause this ( I assume I've done something
> as I've not read of this occurring with anyone else yet).
>
> When gnome starts up  "metacity" doesn't start so no windows have menus/
> borders etc and gnome-panel doesn't work (it is running). If I right click
> on the desktop and open a terminal, type in gnome-wm or metacity, metacity
> starts and I get my full windows, menus and can click on windows in
> gnome-panel.
>
> I have tried System/Preferences/Sessions and metacity is in this list with
> a priority/rating of 20. but this doesn't seem to help.
>
> Has anyone else suffered this and/or know how to fix it?
>
>
I'm having the same problem, but I didn't try starting metacity... thanks
for the tip.
I've also been getting a startup error message (in gnome) about
gnome-settings-manager not running.

question to you, ruscook: are you running beryl/emerald/compiz whatever out
of the quinnstorm repos? I am and I was wondering if that was our common
problem.
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