Date: 08 Sep 2002 15:06:50 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>, FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: man -k (metacity | xinit) Message-ID: <1031512010.60099.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020908145753.V73565-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020908145753.V73565-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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--=-CvPo4KKWHeILNA9vHquX Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 15:00, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On 8 Sep 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > PL> PS - Has anyone had experience using Gnome2's gconftool-2 to change= or set a window manager from the non-GUI command-line?? Thanks. > > You may want to have a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.= html#q8 > > Joe > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc >=20 > Thanks Joe, that was moderately useful - but Question 1 on that page abou= t > how to get Gnome doesn't say how the defaults get installed. That is, > would my reinstalling Gnome fix my ~/.gnome/whatever and ~/.xinitrc woes? I don't know what your ~/.gnome/whatever woes are. However, _installing_ GNOME does nothing with users' home directories, so I would imagine not. >=20 > What I really need is a document explaining how to set and unset options > for Gnome but from without. How can I set a windows manager for Gnome > using the command line or by editing some files before running startx? You can play with ~/.gnome2/session if you're running GNOME 2. This file contains every session-enabled application that will start at GNOME boot time. If you hunt through it, you'll find the Window Manager, and you can change it there. Note, that if you mess up this file, you could be in a bit of trouble. Joe >=20 > -- > Peter Leftwich > President & Founder > Video2Video Services > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA > +1-413-403-9555 >=20 >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-CvPo4KKWHeILNA9vHquX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA9e5/Kb2iPiv4Uz4cRAiaQAKCXLRpnrrx0QfFsTiARW0jhqj4OSQCdFQhf viJoHb0JVpboyGdOe/5XgUc= =Ilee -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-CvPo4KKWHeILNA9vHquX-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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