Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:03:18 -0800 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switching window managers with Gnome 2.24.3 (and its session bug) Message-ID: <18806.982.44065.969797@almost.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <1232425679.33516.117.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <18805.3110.169518.547639@almost.alerce.com> <1232409965.33516.112.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <18805.15711.641285.468683@almost.alerce.com> <1232425679.33516.117.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke writes: > 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. > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > Yes this is the problem. > > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > Maybe someone could update > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q9 > > > > 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"? Actually, I mispoke in my original post in the thread (I'd tried a bunch of things to get this working). The variable that I have changed is: /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/window_manager which I've set to sawfish and without placing a copy of Sawfish.desktop into ~/.local/share/applications/sawfish.desktop I get this: gnome-session[80010]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'sawfish' of required component 'windowmanager'. I just tested placing a copy in /usr/local/share/applications/sawfish.desktop and that seems to work too. g.
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