From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 21 11:36:31 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 9D18737B401 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:36:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D7843E75 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:36:28 -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 0821929090; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:36:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:36:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST , Gnome List Subject: Re: layers and layers of windows managers Message-ID: <20020921143517.I8893-100000@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: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Adam Weinberger Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: layers and layers of windows managers Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 16:41:49 -0400 (EDT) On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: Adam, you are super, major, happily knowledgeable and HELPFUL. I hope you don't mind my continued questions? > 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. I wish to keep using Gnome (I guess) but startkde seemed much simpler (as used a few weeks ago), and KDE 2.2.2 because I couldn't figure out how to upgrade to 3.0.1 if it wasn't a pkg_add nor a /stand/sysinstall :) When you say "open the gnome control center," can this be done from a textual environment? That is, I am command line only until I can figure this out -- it is beyond me why when I run "startx" I get the standard error message about my DHCP hostname and how it should be added to /etc/hosts then one desktop wallpaper (path found in ~/.gnome/Background) then a different one which covers that one completely then just a cursor and nothing more. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace! > alternatively, edit ~/.gnome/default.wm and put the windowmanager in > there. > [Default] > WM=/usr/X11R6/bin/metacity > or whatever. I didn't have this default.wm file so I created one with your sample contents above - it didn't work. By the way, I also have a ~/.gnome2/ directory. Does this matter? > 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. I'll keep trying Gnome, it seems quite popular. I just haven't found out which windows manager(s) are most popular -- if any of them have some kind of start button or icon in the lower left, I'm sold! *grins* > 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 Symlink the two? > images, just search for them recursively. > ~/$ for i in image1.jpg image2.jpg; grep -r $i \.* > -Adam Wait wait, what does the above do? And thanks for the .xinitrc file below - It may serve SUPER ULTRA useful later, especially getting xmodmap to use, accept, and understand the "Windows" key on my keyboard! Now if only I could get imwheel (port) and my Logitech Cordless Wheel Mouse scroll wheel working in Mozilla ;-) Thanks again Adam for all your assistance, -Peter > ======================begin .xinitrc [snip] > ============================end .xinitrc > -- > "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." > -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" > Adam Weinberger > adam@vectors.cx > http://vectors.cx -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message