Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 16:26:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: man -k (metacity | xinit) Message-ID: <20020908162508.N77282-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <1031512010.60099.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On 8 Sep 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 15:00, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > On 8 Sep 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > PL> PS - Has anyone had experience using Gnome2's gconftool-2 to change or set a window manager from the non-GUI command-line?? Thanks. > > > You may want to have a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q8 > > > Joe > > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc > > > > Thanks Joe, that was moderately useful - but Question 1 on that page about > > how to get Gnome doesn't say how the defaults get installed. That is, > > would my reinstalling Gnome fix my ~/.gnome/whatever and ~/.xinitrc woes? > > I don't know what your ~/.gnome/whatever woes are. However, > _installing_ GNOME does nothing with users' home directories, so I would > imagine not. > > > > > What I really need is a document explaining how to set and unset options > > for Gnome but from without. How can I set a windows manager for Gnome > > using the command line or by editing some files before running startx? > > You can play with ~/.gnome2/session if you're running GNOME 2. This > file contains every session-enabled application that will start at GNOME > boot time. If you hunt through it, you'll find the Window Manager, and > you can change it there. Note, that if you mess up this file, you could > be in a bit of trouble. > > Joe > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc PROBLEM SOLVED! I noticed someone else's ~/.xinitrc had twm & exec gnome-session ...in it so I added the line "wmaker &" before "exec gnome-session" and boom! Everything is good now. FYI. -- 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
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