Bug#241361: Te problem is in gnome-session with gnome-wm

Josselin Mouette 241361@bugs.debian.org, 241361@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 02 Apr 2004 17:22:41 +0200


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Le jeu 01/04/2004 =E0 19:25, Ernesto Jim=E9nez Caballero a =E9crit :
>    * Use metacity by default:
>    + gnome-wm: use metacity or sawfish when it is available
>    + default.session: let gnome-wm discover the window manager
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> It doesn't let us to configure the selection with gconf-editor (when you
> restart gnome metacity is running).

This wasn't possible before either.

> I thought that it was because it found metacity and sawfish and selected
> metacity without listening my configuration (gconf and
> update-alternatives pointing to sawfish). So I moved /usr/bin/metacity
> to /usr/bin/metacity.no and it started with sawfish.

Configuring the GNOME window manager with update-alternatives is evil,
that's why this is no more the case. If you want to use sawfish, just
run it instead of metacity (killall metacity; sawfish&) and save your
session.

Regards,
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