Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:27:59 -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: <1232425679.33516.117.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <18805.15711.641285.468683@almost.alerce.com> References: <18805.3110.169518.547639@almost.alerce.com> <1232409965.33516.112.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <18805.15711.641285.468683@almost.alerce.com>
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--=-JiLffmZD7MGvG0EQ5xg+ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 18:56 -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke writes: > > 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 metacit= y, > > > 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 > >=20 > > Yes this is the problem. > >=20 > > >=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' o= f > > > 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. > >=20 > > The two are very different. You could have copied it > > to /usr/local/share/applications, though for the same effect. > >=20 > > Hopefully this session management stuff will be sorted out in GNOME > > 2.26. >=20 > Maybe someone could update >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q9 >=20 > with a note about the work around? Without creating any additional files, what happens if you set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/window_manager to "sawfish"? Joe >=20 > Is it worth a pr? >=20 > g. >=20 >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-JiLffmZD7MGvG0EQ5xg+ 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) iEYEABECAAYFAkl1Us0ACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4cIuACcC704mWnPf2QEu1vZiKfVNTZ0 BBoAn3AvKI27ZCh3XgtUGQ95txPAsjvO =sra2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-JiLffmZD7MGvG0EQ5xg+--
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