From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 21 11:35:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61CBE37B401 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:35:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0621F43E6A for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:35:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF6128CC2; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:35:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:35:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST , Gnome List Subject: Re: layers and layers of windows managers Message-ID: <20020921143103.E8893-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just an update for the archives, and future troubleshooters: 1. To fix this problem, make your .xinitrc look something like this. setenv WINDOW_MANAGER metacity metacity & exec gnome-session Once Gnome 2 is working again, you can eliminate some of these. 2. Edit ~/.gnome2/default.wm to look something like this: [Default] WM=/usr/X11R6/bin/metacity 3. Rename or remove ~/.gnome2/session and re-run startx ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adam Weinberger To: Peter Leftwich Cc: Adam Weinberger , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: layers and layers of windows managers Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:46:14 -0700 if you wish to keep using gnome and just change which window manager starts up, open the gnome control center (bin/gnomecc) and modify the "Window Manager" page of the "Desktop" category. alternatively, edit ~/.gnome/default.wm and put the windowmanager in there. [Default] WM=/usr/X11R6/bin/metacity or whatever. if you don't wish to run gnome at all, then just edit your .xinitrc file and change the exec line to something else. that file is a script. i'm attaching mine. if you're running startx, all you need is an .xinitrc file. i typically just link .xinitrc and .xsession. if something is spawning multiple root images, just search for them recursively. ~/$ for i in image1.jpg image2.jpg; grep -r $i \.* -Adam ======================begin .xinitrc [snip] ============================end .xinitrc -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message