From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 19:57:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01DB1065670 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:57:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (merlin.alerce.com [64.62.142.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F038FC17 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:57:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 445A933C62; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:57:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 057A333C5B; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:57:17 -0800 (PST) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18856.17821.6848.266925@almost.alerce.com> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:57:17 -0800 To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1235761026.3297.141.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <18856.12732.229171.925418@almost.alerce.com> <1235761026.3297.141.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12 under 22.1.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: hartzell@alerce.com, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switching to sawfish with ports from yesterday. X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: hartzell@alerce.com List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:57:18 -0000 Joe Marcus Clarke writes: > On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 10:32 -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > > I've been using sawfish for a long time, the trick for enabling seems > > to keep changing over the years. > > > > I have a -STABLE system running in a VMware virtual machine with a > > ports tree that was portsnap'ed within the past couple of days. I've > > installed the gnome2 metaport. > > > > On the advice of the FreeBSD Gnome FAQ, I've killed metacity and > > started sawfish (so far so good), then done gnome-session-save --gui > > which cases a number of messages like this: > > > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > > > but I don't get any dialog boxes w/ errors. > > > > After exiting and restarting gnome I still end up running metacity. > > > > I'm starting gnome from the console using startx and a .xinitrc that's > > just > > > > exec gnome-session > > > > Is there a better (functional) way to get it to remember the change? > > You started this thread a while ago, and you already found a working > solution. See > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2009-January/021509.html > [...] Thanks! They do say that the short term memory cells are the first to go. January 2009 wasn't *that* long ago. g.