AW: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-10 Thread Zimmerling, Alexander
Hi, thanks for the reply, I'll try this, when I'm home this evening On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 22:31 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:56 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: Hi, I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a lot of programs during the

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 08:40 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: I had this problem and solved it by deleting ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gnome2_private hmm, although i've installed gentoo only about 2 month ago, i don't want to loose all my personal settings; i've created a new user - and it

AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread Zimmerling, Alexander
: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 08:40 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: I had this problem and solved it by deleting ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gnome2_private hmm, although i've installed gentoo only about 2 month ago, i don't want to loose all my personal settings

Re: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:56 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: Hi, I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a lot of programs during the time. This problem appeared after upgrading gnome to the latest stable version. I had no problems at all by using gnome 2.16.

Re: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 22:31 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:56 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: Hi, I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a lot of programs during the time. This problem appeared after upgrading gnome to the latest

Re: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread don
#!/bin/bash ! ps -u $(whoami) | grep metacity /dev/null metacity I have been seeing this problem for some time too. Can someone suggest where to look for error messages? I've looked in the places I know about. -- Don Reid -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-08 Thread Zimmerling, Alexander
I had this problem and solved it by deleting ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gnome2_private Hi, I have the same problem here. Deleting the files help, but not for long. After 3-4 Logins without any problem, the problem returns. regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Matthias Langer
i'm wondering if anyone else has this problem, or even better, a solution for it: since i've upgraded to gnome-2.18.x i have to start metacity manually at least sometimes after logging in. that is, in about 1 of 4 logins, i don't have a usable desktop till i type metacity into some terminal.

Re: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Hex Star
You should take note of the error message that occurs when you experience this problem and paste the error msg here

Re: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:25 -0700, Hex Star wrote: You should take note of the error message that occurs when you experience this problem and paste the error msg here well, that would be indeed a very good idea; however, i don't start gnome from a terminal but from gdm and i don't know where to

Re: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 01:50 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: i'm wondering if anyone else has this problem, or even better, a solution for it: since i've upgraded to gnome-2.18.x i have to start metacity manually at least sometimes after logging in. that is, in about 1 of 4 logins, i don't