Edgy (Gnome 16.0) Window Manager Problem

[ruscook]

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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