hi, i think there is something wrong with the default configuration of gnome in sid. i have made more than a dozen sid installations in past 3 months, and this problem appears everytime.
it takes a very long time to logon into gnome, and logon process seems to hang for quite a long time (10 seconds or more) when it is loading window manager (as seen from splash screen) i had a suspicion that it had something to do with x-window-manager. previosly i was able to correct it by manually removing x-window-manager from .gnome/gnome-session and then starting sawfish manually but some time back this tricked stopped working. now i am able to reduce it using the following hack first, i would run session-properties and remove x-window-manager and then save session. now, when i logout and login again, i should not get a window manager, but still x-window-manager starts again. but if i remove x-window-manager, save session and logout of gnome, and then change .gnome/default-wm to /usr/bin/sawfish and .gnome/wm-properties to Sawfish, and then i login again, i do not get x-window-manager. then i start sawfish manually, save session, and relogin that delay disappears. this delay is very annoying (and especially makes me look bad in front of my friends to whom i claim gnome starts extremely fast when compared to kde :) ). i hope this is corrected soon. i would enter a bugreport, but first i will like to know whether this is really a bug, or something wrong i am doing. and against which package should i enter the bug report> -- Amardeep Singh
