Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:06:05 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: hartzell@alerce.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switching window managers with Gnome 2.24.3 (and its session bug) Message-ID: <1232409965.33516.112.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <18805.3110.169518.547639@almost.alerce.com> References: <18805.3110.169518.547639@almost.alerce.com>
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--=-9vvMH7Czao6dVCQJHaPZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 15:26 -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > 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. >=20 > I run my X session using startx, which exec's a gnome-session. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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). >=20 > As described here: >=20 > http://damumbl.byteholder.de/blog/?p=3D44 Yes this is the problem. >=20 > I've tried changing the gconf key: >=20 > /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current >=20 > to sawfish but I end up without a window manager and a message on my > console from gnome-session that says: >=20 > gnome-session[80010]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'sawfish' of > required component 'windowmanager'. >=20 > After messing around a bit I finally got it to work by copying=20 >=20 > /usr/local/share/gnome/wm-properties/Sawfish.desktop >=20 > to >=20 > ~/.local/share/applications/sawfish.desktop >=20 > and there was much joy. >=20 > Simple renaming Sawfish.desktop to sawfish.desktop in the original > directory didn't seem to have any effect. The two are very different. You could have copied it to /usr/local/share/applications, though for the same effect. Hopefully this session management stuff will be sorted out in GNOME 2.26. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-9vvMH7Czao6dVCQJHaPZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkl1FWwACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4d00ACeOLna5WDrJtAvy/HOPSDu53Io RakAn1jmBivtoAY7wJ7XcAse7yulPfzG =GxZO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9vvMH7Czao6dVCQJHaPZ--
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