Edgy (Gnome 16.0) Window Manager Problem
ruscook
ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au
Thu Oct 5 22:02:23 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 11:21 -0500, Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
> 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.
No I'm not. The only way I could fix it was to rename my home dir,
create a new one, and copy everything except any "." hidden dirs across.
I then copied innocuous things like non-gnome "." dirs and evolution
settings etc until I had the same settings as my previous home dir but
without the problems!
Kind Regards Russell
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