On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 15:28, Jack Howarth wrote: > Last night, after rebuilding Branden's XFree86 4.2.0 test packages > with some additional r128 patches, I noticed that the reinstallation > of the XFree86 packages caused the window manager to be reset to twm. > Having gdm2 installed, what I noticed was that when I logged in, > the Gnome 2 splash screen would show that the sawfish window manager > was loading. However when X started to open up windows for the gnome > session each item was in its own twm window (the panel dock, the > nautilus2 desktop, the menu bar, etc). I was able to fix this by > changing the symlink for /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager from twm > to sawfish.
Ouch, man update-alternatives. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
