Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:26:30 -0800 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: switching window managers with Gnome 2.24.3 (and its session bug) Message-ID: <18805.3110.169518.547639@almost.alerce.com>
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I'm fond of sawfish. I upgraded to 2.24.3 over the weekend and now can't seem to convince it to let me switch from metacity to sawfish. I run my X session using startx, which exec's a gnome-session. I've used the technique described in item 9 of the FAQ (kill metacity, start sawfish, use gnome-session to save things) to no avail. I'm assuming that it not working is related to the problem with session management in Gnome 2.24 (see item 4 in the faq224.html). As described here: http://damumbl.byteholder.de/blog/?p=44 I've tried changing the gconf key: /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current to sawfish but I end up without a window manager and a message on my console from gnome-session that says: gnome-session[80010]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'sawfish' of required component 'windowmanager'. After messing around a bit I finally got it to work by copying /usr/local/share/gnome/wm-properties/Sawfish.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/sawfish.desktop and there was much joy. Simple renaming Sawfish.desktop to sawfish.desktop in the original directory didn't seem to have any effect. g.
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